Kainton, South Australia

Kainton is a small town in the Australian state of South Australia situated about 10 km south of Paskeville in the upper Yorke Peninsula.

Not to be confused with Keyneton, South Australia.

Kainton
South Australia
Kainton
Coordinates34°7′S 137°54′E
Population366 (shared with other localities in the ‘State Suburb of Clinton (SA)’) (2011 census).[1][2][lower-alpha 1]
Postcode(s)5552
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACDT (UTC+10:30)
LGA(s)Yorke Peninsula Council
RegionYorke and Mid North[3]
CountyDaly[2]
State electorate(s)Narungga[4]
Federal Division(s)Grey[5]
Localities around Kainton:
Paskeville Paskeville
Melton
Kulpara
Port Arthur		 Port Arthur
Sunnyvale Kainton Port Arthur
Gulf St Vincent
Arthurton Clinton Centre
Clinton		 Gulf St Vincent
FootnotesAdjoining localities[2]

The Kainton school closed in 1907, but the "Hundred of Clinton School" was renamed "Kainton School" in 1915.[6]

Kainton is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Narungga and the local government area known as the Yorke Peninsula Council.[2][5][4]

See also

Notes and references
Notes
  1. For the 2011 census, the ‘State Suburb of Clinton (SA)’ consisted of the localities of Clinton, Clinton Centre, Kainton and Port Arthur
Citations
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Clinton (SA)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  2. "Search result(s) for Kainton (LOCB) (Record No. SA0033456) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Counties", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  3. "Yorke and Mid North SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. Narungga (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  5. "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  6. "Manning index of South Australia". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2015.


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