| Blachford South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Abandoned homestead north of Hawker on the western edge of the Flinders Ranges | |||||||||||||||
  Blachford | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 31°44′41″S 138°07′14″E / 31.744627°S 138.120668°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 16 January 1877[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 2,940 square kilometres (1,135 sq mi)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 90 km (56 mi) NE of Port Augusta | ||||||||||||||
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| Region | Far North[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Location[1] Adjoining counties[3] | ||||||||||||||
County of Blachford is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land between the east coast of Lake Torrens and the western side of the Flinders Ranges about 90 kilometres (56 mi) north-east of the city of Port Augusta. It was proclaimed in 1877 and named after Frederic Rogers, 1st Baron Blachford who was the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1860 to 1871. It has been partially divided in the following sub-units of hundreds – Barndioota, Cotabena, Warrakimbo, Wonoka and Woolyana.
- ^ a b c d e f "Search result for "County of Blachford, Cnty" with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Local Government Areas", "Counties", "Hundreds", "Gazetteer", "Land Development Plan Zone Categories" and "Government Regions"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ Ayers, Henry (18 January 1877). "untitled (proclamation of new counties and hundreds)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. 1877. Government of South Australia: 96–98. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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