Hundred of Yatala
| Hundred of Yatala South Australia | |||||||||||||
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  Hundred of Yatala | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°49′S 138°40′E / 34.82°S 138.66°ECoordinates: 34°49′S 138°40′E / 34.82°S 138.66°E | ||||||||||||
| Established | 29 October 1846 | ||||||||||||
| County | Adelaide | ||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Yatala is a cadastral unit of hundred covering much of the Adelaide metropolitan area north of the River Torrens and south of the Little Para River in South Australia.[1][2] It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide.[3] It was named in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe, Yatala being a word from the Weira group of the Kaurna Aboriginal people meaning water running by the side of a river. The word refers to the swampy morass occurring when heavy rains cross what is usually a dry plain.[4] The name was used to describe a large portion of the Adelaide Plains between the Torrens and Little Para on either side of Dry Creek, which roughly bisects the hundred from east to west.
The following local government areas of South Australia are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Yatala as of 2016:
- City of Salisbury (excluding portion north of the Little Para River)
- City of Tea Tree Gully
- City of Port Adelaide Enfield (only portions within approximate bounds of the former City of Enfield council area; that is, portions south of Grand Junction Road and east of Port Wakefield Road)
- City of Charles Sturt (excluding portion south of Henley Beach Road)
- City of Prospect
- City of Adelaide (only portions north of the River Torrens)
- Town of Walkerville
Small portions of the Adelaide Hills Council area (west of Hurst, Paracombe and Lower Hermitage roads) and the City of Playford (west of Shillabeer Road) also overlap the far eastern portion of the Hundred of Yatala.
District council
The District Council of Yatala was established in 1853 with boundaries corresponding approximately to those of the hundred. Three large exceptions were the future Corporate Town of Port Adelaide, the land south west of the road to the port which was allocated to the District Council of Hindmarsh and land in the east of the hundred starting at the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges. As various parts of the original were separated — parts north of Dry Creek for Salisbury council and parts in the south for Walkerville and Prospect councils — the original name of 'Yatala' was obscured and finally lost (to local government) when the last remaining namesake, Yatala South council was renamed in 1935 to Enfield council, after the township at its centre.[5]
See also
- District Council of Yatala
- Dry Creek (South Australia)
- Lands administrative divisions of South Australia
References
- ↑ "Search for 'Hundred of Yatala' (ID SA0030790)". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ↑ "South Australia hundred maps (Yatala)". Surveyor General's Office. 1957. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ↑ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
- ↑ "Place Names of South Australia - XYZ (Yatala)". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
- ↑ Marsden, Susan (2012). "LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: A HISTORY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COUNCILS to 1936" (PDF). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
