Rudall, South Australia

Rudall
South Australia
Rudall
Coordinates 33°41′25″S 136°16′16″E / 33.6904°S 136.2710°E / -33.6904; 136.2710Coordinates: 33°41′25″S 136°16′16″E / 33.6904°S 136.2710°E / -33.6904; 136.2710
Established 1914[1]
Postcode(s) 5642
LGA(s) District Council of Cleve[1]
Region Eyre Western[2]
County Jervois[1]
State electorate(s) Flinders[3]
Federal Division(s) Grey[4]
Localities around Rudall:
Boonerdo Kielpa Campoona
Murlong Rudall Cleve
Hinks Verran Verran
Footnotes Adjoining localities[1]

Rudall is a settlement in South Australia.[5] At the 2006 census, Rudall had a population of 130.[6] It is named for the cadastral Hundred of Rudall, which was named after politician Samuel Rudall.[7]

It is a grain and sheep service centre on Eyre Peninsula. It is on the Eyre Peninsula Railway between Cummins and Kimba and the Birdseye Highway between Cleve and Lock.

Rudall Centre School opened on 1921 and closed in 1946, while the Hundred of Rudall School opened in 1917 and closed in 1949.[8] A postal receiving office opened at Rudall on 3 January 1914, was upgraded to a post office on 1 January 1921, and became a community mail agent on 10 January 1992.[9] It formerly had a Methodist church.[10]

Rudall is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Cleve.[4][3][1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Search result for "Rudall (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0059594) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Government Towns", "Place names (gazetteer)", "Road labels" and "Development Plan"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Eyre Western SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  3. 1 2 "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  6. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Rudall (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  7. ↑ "Place Names of South Australia - R". Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "Place Names of South Australia - R". The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "Rudall". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  10. ↑ "NEW CHURCH BUILDING DEDICATED AT RUDALL". Port Lincoln Times. XXVII, (1, 494). South Australia. 24 September 1953. p. 14. Retrieved 30 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.


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