Hundred of Palmer

The Hundred of Palmer is a cadastral hundred of the County of Newcastle in South Australia. It is located near 32.35°S, 138.21°E east of the township of Quorn, and south of the former town of Willochra which, although surveyed in 1860, never properly developed and was abandoned during the drought in the 1860s.^[2]

Hundred of Palmer South Australia
Cadastral map of Hundred of Palmer, 1938
Hundred of Palmer
Coordinates	32.35°S 138.21°E / -32.35; 138.21
Established	1873
Location	18 km (11 mi) east of Quorn
Lands administrative divisions around Hundred of Palmer: Hundred of Yarrah Hundred of Boolcunda Hundred of Pichi Richi Hundred of Palmer Hundred of Moockra Hundred of Woolundunga Hundred of Willochra Hundred of Coonatto
Footnotes	[1]

The traditional owners of the area are the Ngadjuri people.^[3] The first European explorer to the area was Thomas Burr in September 1842.