Baldina, South Australia

Baldina
South Australia
Postcode(s) 5417 [1]
LGA(s) Regional Council of Goyder
State electorate(s) Stuart [1]
Federal Division(s) Grey [1]
Localities around Baldina:
Burra Mongolata Burra Eastern Districts
Burra Baldina Burra Eastern Districts
Burra Worlds End Worlds End
Footnotes Coordinates[2]

Baldina is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder.[1] It was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name".[2]

The name Baldina stems from an Aboriginal word for a set of springs on Baldina Creek. The name was used for two pastoral runs in the area: the Baldina Run, established by Henry Ayers in 1851, and the Baldina Creek Run by Alfred Barker in 1855-1856.[2] The cadastral Hundred of Baldina was proclaimed on 30 December 1875; the hundred boundaries also include roughly half of modern Worlds End and a section of Burra Eastern Districts.[3]

Baldina School opened in 1885 and closed in 1930, held in a Lutheran chapel.[2][4] There were at least four former churches in the Hundred of Baldina: the Upper Bright (Baldina) Lutheran Church (1887-1960), the Baldina Plains (St Paul's) Lutheran Church (1878-1913) east of the Burra-Morgan Road, the Baldina Methodist Church, and the Douglas Primitive Methodist Church.[5][6] A hotel, Midwinter's Hotel, was licensed in 1880 and served as a local meeting place, but was destroyed by fire in 1887.[7][8] Baldina also once had its own post office.[2]

The locality also includes the Red Banks Conservation Park, claimed to be one of the richest megafauna sites in Australia, and the Baldina pastoral station.[2] Baldina Cemetery is now located in Burra Eastern Districts due to changes to local boundaries.[9][10]

There are also two former towns within the current boundaries: Douglas and Kilto. Douglas, along Eastern Road in the north of Baldina, was surveyed in March 1877 and declared to have ceased to exist on 18 June 1981.[11] Kilto, now in the south of Baldina, was gazetted as an unbounded locality; it had originally been named Klaebes, but was one of the Germanic place names renamed during World War I.[12][13] Klaebes Post Office opened in August 1879, closed in December 1910, and reopened around 1913; its final closure date is unknown.[14][15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Search result(s) for Baldina, 5417". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Search result(s) for Baldina, 5417". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Search result for " Hundred of Baldina (HD)" (Record no SA0004313) with the following layers selected - Suburbs and Localities", "Counties" and "Hundreds"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "BALDINA AND WORLDS END.". Kapunda Herald. XL, (3,251). South Australia. 12 August 1904. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "The Churches". burrahistory.info. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  6. ↑ Emmaus to Worlds End: a history of the Robertstown Council Area. District Council of Robertstown. 1986. p. 192.
  7. ↑ "NORTH DISTRICT LICENSING BENCH.". Adelaide Observer. XXXVII, (2018). South Australia. 5 June 1880. p. 28. Retrieved 27 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "FIFTY YEARS AGO". Northern Argus. LXVII, (3,654). South Australia. 21 May 1937. p. 1. Retrieved 26 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "Search result for "Baldina Cemetery" (Record no SA0004313) with the following layers selected - Suburbs and Localities", "Counties" and "Hundreds"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "Red Banks Conservation Park". National Parks South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  11. ↑ "Search result(s) for Douglas, Gtwn". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  12. ↑ "Search result(s) for Kilto, Locu". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  13. ↑ "Search result(s) for Klaebes, Locu". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  14. ↑ "Klaebes (1)". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "Klaebes (2)". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
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