Hundred of Stow

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = cadastral | name = Stow | state = sa | image = File:River wakefield in flood - old whitwarta bridge.jpg | caption = Wakefield River in flood on the south border of the hundred at Whitwarta | county = Stanley | region = Mid North | lga = Wakefield | est = 26 June 1862 | coordinates = {{coord|34.05|S|138.36|E|display=inline,title}} | area_total_sq_mi = 56 | near-nw = Everard | near-n = Everard | near-ne = Blyth | near-e = Hall | near-se = Dalkey | near-s = Balaklava | near-sw = Inkerman | near-w = Goyder }} The '''Hundred of Stow''' is the cadastral unit of hundred on the northern Adelaide Plains.<ref name="PLBHundred">{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |title=Search for 'Hundred of Stow' |ID=SA0063353 |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=31 May 2017 |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 Stanley.<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 1867 by Governor Dominick Daly after Randolph Isham Stow (1828–1878), twice Attorney-General of South Australia.<ref name="PLBHundred"/> Parts of the localities of Mount Templeton, Stow, Whitwarta, Watchman and Balaklava are within the hundred.

==Local government== On 14 November 1878, the entire Hundred of Stow was annexed to the District Council of Balaklava along with an eastern strip of the Hundred of Goyder, following petitioning by resident landowners.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Proclamations |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1878/53.pdf |journal=South Australian Government Gazette |date=14 November 1878 |volume=1878 |edition=53 |page=1390 |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=28 June 2017}}</ref>

The hundred was locally governed by District Council of Wakefield Plains from 1983 following the amalgamation of Balaklava council with Port Wakefield and Owen councils. In 1997 the merger of Wakefield Plains and Blyth-Snowtown councils brought hundred under the governance of Wakefield Regional Council with the North ward and Central ward boundary passing east to west through the middle of the hundred.

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