Hundred of Inkerman

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = cadastral | name = Inkerman | state = sa | image = | caption = | county = Gawler | region = Mid North | est = 22 May 1856 | coordinates = {{coord|34.24|S|138.24|E|display=inline,title}} | area = 228 | near-nw = Kulpara | near-n = Goyder | near-ne = Stow | near-e = Balaklava | near-se = Dublin | near-s = Dublin | near-sw = ''Gulf St Vincent'' | near-w = Clinton }} The '''Hundred of Inkerman''' is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains in South Australia and bounded on the north by the Wakefield River.<ref name="PLB">{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |title=Search for 'Hundred of Inkerman' (ID SA0032055) |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=16 February 2016 |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 eight hundreds of the County of Gawler.<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 1856 by Governor Richard MacDonnell after the Crimean War Battle of Inkerman.<ref name="PLB" />

The following localities and towns of the Wakefield Council area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Inkerman: * Wild Horse Plains (northern half) * Inkerman * Kallora (western half) * Proof Range * Port Wakefield * Bowmans (southern half)

==Local government== On 28 November 1878 the District Council of Port Wakefield was established, incorporating the entire Hundred of Inkerman as well as the western two thirds of the Hundred of Goyder and a small coastal portion of the Hundred of Clinton near the Wakefield port.<ref>{{Cite journal |journal=South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=Government of South Australia |date=28 November 1878 |volume=1878 |edition=55 |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1878/55.pdf |title=Proclamations |page=1568 |accessdate=3 July 2017}}</ref>

In 1983 the Port Wakefield council amalgamated with the councils of Balaklava and Owen bringing the hundred under the local governance of the District Council of Wakefield Plains. Then in 1997 Wakefield Plains and Blyth-Snowtown councils merged bringing the hundred into the much larger Wakefield Regional Council as a part of its Central ward.

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