Baldina, South Australia

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]

Baldina
South Australia
Baldina
Coordinates33.688920°S 139.0788°E / -33.688920; 139.0788
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
FootnotesCoordinates[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. "Search result(s) for Baldina, 5417". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. "Search result(s) for Baldina, 5417". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. 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. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. 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". The 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. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. 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. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  12. "Search result(s) for Kilto, Locu". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  13. "Search result(s) for Klaebes, Locu". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. 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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