Hundred of Cameron

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = cadastral | name = Cameron | state = sa | image = Lake Bumbunga salt lake at Lochiel, South Australia in 2010.jpg | caption = Lake Bumbunga, Lochiel at the centre of the hundred | county = Daly | region = Mid North | lga = Wakefield | est = 18 February 1869 | coordinates = {{coord|33.89|S|138.17|E|display=inline,title}} | area = 306 | near-nw = Wiltunga | near-n = Barunga | near-ne = Boucaut | near-e = Everard | near-se = Stow | near-s = Goyder | near-sw = Kulpara | near-w = Ninnes }} The '''Hundred of Cameron''' is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia centred on Lake Bumbunga. The northern Hummock Range occupies much of the western half of the area and the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line runs near and parallel to the eastern boundary.<ref name="PLB">{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |title=Search for 'Hundred of Cameron' (ID SA0011947) |publisher=Land Services, Government of South Australia |accessdate=22 February 2016 |quote=Derivation of Name: Hugh Cameron, an early pioneer; Other Details: Area 118 square miles |archive-date=7 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b1559606 |title=South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360 |publisher=Surveyor General's Office |date=1867}}</ref> It was named in 1869 by Governor James Fergusson for early pioneer Hugh Cameron.<ref name="PLB" />

thumb|left|300px|Plan of the Hundred of Cameron in 1964 The town of Lochiel, most of the locality of Bumbunga and the southern half of the locality of Barunga Gap are situated inside the bounds of the hundred.

==Local government== In 1888 the Hundred of Cameron was annexed to the District Council of Port Wakefield as part of the District Councils Act 1887.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/handle/2328/3465 |title=The District Councils Act 1887 No. 419 |publisher=Flinders University |accessdate=27 March 2015 |page=90}}</ref> On 6 February 1890, following much vibrant discussion by ratepayers as to the pros and cons, the hundred was formally severed from the council of Port Wakefield and annexed to the District Council of Snowtown<ref>{{Cite journal |journal=South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=Government of South Australia |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1890/7.pdf |date=6 February 1890 |edition=7 |volume=1890 |accessdate=26 June 2017 |title=Proclamations—Snowtown, district—Boundaries enlarged |page=402}}</ref> as the new Cameron ward.

In 1987 it retained its status as a ward in the consolidated District Council of Blyth-Snowtown before being reunited, for the purposes of local governance, with Port Wakefield following the amalgamation of Blyth-Snowtown and Wakefield Plains council into the new Wakefield Regional Council in 1997. Since then the hundred has been a part of the much larger North ward of the Wakefield council.

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