Franklyn, South Australia

Franklyn is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder.^[3] It was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name". It comprises the northern section of the cadastral Hundred of Wonna.^[4] The name stems from a Franklyn House in Devonshire.^[5]

Franklyn South Australia
Franklyn
Coordinates	33°08′18″S 139°04′18″E[1]
Population	0 (SAL 2021)[2]
Postcode(s)	5421[3]
LGA(s)	Regional Council of Goyder[1]
Region	Yorke and Mid North[1]
County	Kimberley[1]
State electorate(s)	Stuart[3]
Federal division(s)	Grey[3]
Localities around Franklyn: Ucolta Parnaroo Hardy Terowie Franklyn Pine Creek Wonna Wonna Pine Creek
Footnotes	Adjoining localities[4]

Franklyn was surveyed as a government town in May 1880, but the town was formally declared to have ceased to exist on 9 February 1984.^[4] Franklyn Post Office opened on 1 October 1883, was downgraded to a receiving office in January 1910, and closed on 9 July 1917.^[6] A second post office, Pandappa Dam, operated in the south-east of the locality from 1 April 1883 until around 1908.^[7][8] A school opened under the name of Wonna in 1883, was renamed Franklyn in 1886, and closed in 1916, while Pandappa Dam School opened in 1893 and closed in 1898.^[5][9]

In October 1908, a correspondent to The Chronicle in Adelaide wrote that "there used to be a lot of people living here, but [...] it is very lonely now. There are only about a dozen families here, mostly farmers [...] and dairymen. We have a school and a church, however, so that we are not total barbarians. We also have a post-office, although we have only one mail a week."^[10] In 1916, it was proposed to rename the town Wonna to avoid confusion with "Franklin", a subdivision in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Pennington, but this did not occur.^[5][11]

The 1051-hectare Pandappa Conservation Park is located entirely within Franklyn.^[3][12]