Everard Central, South Australia

Everard Central (33°58′S 138°19′E; postcode: 5461) is a locality in South Australia's Mid North.^[3][4] The locality is situated in approximately the southern two thirds of the cadastral Hundred of Everard.^[3][5]

Everard Central South Australia
Everard Central
Coordinates	33°57′55″S 138°18′59″E
Population	33 (SAL 2016)[1][2]
Postcode(s)	5461
Location	108 km (67 mi) N of Adelaide
LGA(s)	Wakefield Regional Council
Region	Mid North
State electorate(s)	Frome
Federal division(s)	Grey
Localities around Everard Central: Snowtown[3] Condowie[3] Hart, Blyth[3] Bumbunga[3] Everard Central Bowillia[3] Nantawarra[3] Mount Templeton, Whitwarta[3] Stow[3]

Hundred of Everard

Hundred of Everard, 1894

Everard South Australia
Population	33 (SAL 2016)[6][7]
Established	24 May 1867
Area	215 km2 (83.0 sq mi)
County	Stanley
Lands administrative divisions around Everard: Barunga Boucaut Hart Cameron Everard Blyth Goyder Stow Hall

The Hundred of Everard is the cadastral unit of hundred on the northern Adelaide Plains containing the Everard Central locality.^[5] It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Stanley.^[8] It was named in 1867 by Governor Dominick Daly after William Everard (1819–1889), a South Australian parliamentarian.^[5] The southern third of the locality of Condowie is also situated inside the bounds of the Hundred of Everard.

Local government

In 1888 the Hundred of Everard was annexed to the District Council of Blyth as part of the District Councils Act 1887.^[9] Not long after, on 26 September 1889, the hundred was severed from Blyth council and annexed instead to the District Council of Snowtown^[10] as the Everard ward.

In 1912, at the instigation of resident landowners, a southern portion of the hundred south of Everard Road and including the Everard Central township, was severed from Snowtown council and added to the District Council of Balaklava as part of its Stow ward.^{[citation needed]} From 1987, following the merging of Snowtown and Blyth councils, the larger north part of the hundred retained is ward status with 2 council representatives in the Blyth-Snowtown council. From 1997, following the Blyth-Snowtown amalgamation with the District Council of Wakefield Plains, the entire hundred became part of the much larger North ward of the Wakefield Regional Council.

Geology

Everard Central contains a series of ephemeral salt lake basins.^[11] The lunette formations at the basin edges contain deposits of gypsum. Gypsum for agricultural use is mined at the site, with 35,000 tonnes being obtained by G.J. Mills and McArdle in 2002.^[12]

See also

• List of cities and towns in South Australia
• Lands administrative divisions of South Australia