The Shire of Yilgarn is a Local Government Area

Local Government Areas of Western Australia

The Australian state of Western Australia is divided into 141 local government areas...

 in the Eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia

Western Australia

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 about 400 kilometres (248.5 mi) east of Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, the state capital. The Shire covers an area of 30720 square kilometres (11,861.1 sq mi) and its seat of government is the town of Southern Cross

Southern Cross, Western Australia

Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded by gold prospectors in 1888, and gazetted in 1890. It is the major town and administrative centre of the Shire of Yilgarn...

. The main industries within the Shire are mining and farming.

History

In 1891, the Yilgarn Road Board was gazetted. In 1918, it merged with the Municipality of Southern Cross (gazetted 1892). On 1 July 1961, it became the Shire Council following changes to the Local Government Act.

As a result of local government reforms in Western Australia, the Shire of Yilgarn will merge with the Shire of Westonia in July 2012, forming the Shire of Westonia-Yilgarn.

Wards

The shire has been divided into 3 wards.

• Town Ward (4 councillors)
• North Ward (2 councillors)
• South Ward (3 councillors)

Towns and localities

Many of the following are ghost towns associated with short-lived mineral booms between the 1890s and the 1940s.

• Southern Cross
  Southern Cross, Western Australia
  Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded by gold prospectors in 1888, and gazetted in 1890. It is the major town and administrative centre of the Shire of Yilgarn...
  
  
• Baladjie
• Bodallin
  Bodallin, Western Australia
  Bodallin is a town located around half way between Merredin and Southern Cross in Western Australia.The town takes its name from the railway siding of this name, established between 1894 and 1897. When gazetted in 1918 the town was spelt Boddalin...
  
  
• Bullfinch
  Bullfinch, Western Australia
  Bullfinch is a small town in the Eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.The town is based around the gold mining industry and was originally gazetted in 1910....
  
  
• Colreavy (also known as Golden Valley)
• Corinthia
• Dulyalbin
• Ennuin
• Garratt
• Ghooli
• Holleton
• Koolyanobbing
  Koolyanobbing, Western Australia
  Koolyanobbing is located 54 km NNE of the town of Southern Cross, Western Australia.Iron ore is mined here by a subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources of Cleveland, Ohio. Ore is railed to port at Esperance for export...
  
  
• Marvel Loch
  Marvel Loch, Western Australia
  Marvel Loch is a small townsite of less than 100 people, some 401 km east of Perth, Western Australia. It is located 32 km south west of Southern Cross, along the Perth to Kalgoorlie Great Eastern Highway...
  
  
• Moorine Rock
  Moorine Rock, Western Australia
  Moorine Rock is located in the eastern agricultural region of Western Australia, 347 km east of Perth and 22 km west south west of Southern Cross. It is located on the Great Eastern Highway and the railway line from Northam to Southern Cross. When the line was opened in 1895 a railway...
  
  
• Mount Hampton
• Mount Holland
• Mount Jackson
  Mount Jackson, Western Australia
  Mount Jackson is a hill in outback Western Australia located at . It is situated NNW of Koolyanobbing and NNE of Southern Cross. It is in the Shire of Yilgarn....
  
  
• Mount Palmer
  Mount Palmer, Western Australia
  Mount Palmer was a town in the Yilgarn shire in Western Australia. It was founded in 1934 after the discovery of gold in the area. The Mount Palmer Gold Mine operated from 1934 to 1944, when it closed due to labour shortages cause by World War II...
  
  
• Noongar
  Noongar, Western Australia
  Noongar is a small town located around half way between Merredin and Southern Cross along the Great Eastern Highway in Wheatbelt region of Western Australia....
  
  
• Yellowdine
  Yellowdine, Western Australia
  Yellowdine is located 402 km east of Perth, Western Australia on the Great Eastern Highway. The townsite is in the goldfields region, situated in the Shire of Yilgarn.- History :...
  
  
• Yerbillon

External links

• Shire of Yilgarn