Kielpa, South Australia

Kielpa is a town and locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.^[1] It is midway between Rudall and Darke Peak on the Eyre Peninsula Railway.^[1]

Kielpa South Australia
Kielpa
Coordinates	33°35′15″S 136°13′25″E[1]
Population	55 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established	4 June 1914 (town) 23 December 1998 (locality)[3][4]
Postcode(s)	5642
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
LGA(s)	District Council of Cleve[1]
State electorate(s)	Flinders
Federal division(s)	Grey
Localities around Kielpa: Boonerdo Darke Peak Campoona Boonerdo Kielpa Campoona Murlong Rudall Campoona
Footnotes	Adjoining localities[1]

Kielpa once had a school and a post office, however neither remains. The bulk grain silos by the railway line are still in use for barley.^[5] Kielpa was proposed as the junction for a branch railway line to Campoona and Mangalo, and the railway was authorised by parliament to be built in 1916,^[6] however it was never constructed, and by 1929, the Public Works Committee determined that wheat could be more efficiently transported by motor lorry than by building this line.^[7]