Shire of Yea

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = lga

| name = Shire of Yea

| state = vic

| region = Hume

| area = 1392.32

| est = 1869

| seat = Yea

| pop = 5,030

| pop_year = 1992

| pop_footnotes = {{cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49|issn= 0067-1223}}

| logo =

| image = Old lga Yea.png

| image2 = YeaShireHall.JPG

| caption = Location in Victoria

| caption2 = Yea Shire Hall in High St, Yea

| county = Anglesey

| near-nw = Seymour

| near-n = Goulburn

| near-ne = Euroa

| near-w = Broadford

| near-e = Alexandra

| near-sw = Whittlesea

| near-s = Eltham

| near-se = Healesville

| _noautocat = yes

}}

The Shire of Yea was a local government area about {{convert|110|km|mi|0}} northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of {{convert|1392.32|km2|sqmi|1}}, and existed from 1869 until 1994. The shire's population was dominated by the town of Yea.

History

Yea was first incorporated as a road district on 1 February 1869, and became a shire on 28 November 1873.

Its boundaries changed a number of times throughout its existence:{{cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=908–909}} Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.

15 May 1907 - Annexed parts of the Shire of Seymour.
20 May 1914 - Lost a part of North Riding to the Shire of Alexandra.
21 April 1925 - Lost parts to the Shire of Healesville.
19 April 1961 - Lost parts to the Shire of Seymour.
1 October 1972 - Annexed parts of the Shire of Eltham, near Kinglake.
1 October 1980 - Annexed parts of the Shire of Healesville.

The Shire was described in the 1949 Australian Blue Book as an elevated area given to pastoral and dairying pursuits, along with sheep and cattle grazing. By 1994, 51% of Yea's land was under cultivation as farmland, with the Kinglake National Park and Yea River Regional Park, as well as the Murrindindi Forest, the latter being important to Yea's economy for timber production, accounting for much of the rest.{{cite web|url=http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/yea.html|title=Australian Places - Yea|author=Monash University|author-link=Monash University|year=1999|accessdate=2008-01-05|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030318072205/http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/yea.html|archivedate=2003-03-18}}

On 18 November 1994, the Shire of Yea was abolished, and along with the Shire of Alexandra and parts of the City of Whittlesea and the Shires of Broadford, Eltham, Euroa and Healesville, was merged into the newly created Shire of Murrindindi.{{cite book|url=http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/76E601D6DB55E88ACA25722500049195/$File/12570_1994-95.pdf|title=Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics|author-link=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=1 August 1995|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|page=10|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2007-12-16}}

=Ridings=

Yea's ridings were abolished on 27 May 1930, and all councillors represented the entire shire.

Towns and localities

Break O'Day
Caveat
Cheviot
Devlins Bridge
Dropmore
Flowerdale
Ghin Ghin
Glenburn
Hazeldene
Highlands
Homewood
Kerrisdale
Kinglake (shared with the Shire of Eltham)
Limestone
Molesworth
Murrindindi
Woodbourne
Yea*

* Council seat.

Population

Year ! Population
class="wikitable"
1911	2,603
1954	2,866
1958	2,920*
1961	2,697
1966	2,620
1971	2,970
1976	3,071
1981	4,437
1986	4,200
1991	4,744

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References

External links

{{Victorian local government areas pre-1994 vs present map link}}
[https://www.victorianplaces.com.au/yea-and-yea-shire Victorian Places - Yea and Yea Shire]

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