Buckleboo

Buckleboo
South Australia
Buckleboo
Coordinates 32°55′0″S 136°12′0″E / 32.91667°S 136.20000°E / -32.91667; 136.20000Coordinates: 32°55′0″S 136°12′0″E / 32.91667°S 136.20000°E / -32.91667; 136.20000
Population 188 (2006 Census)[1]
Established 1925
Postcode(s) 5641
LGA(s) District Council of Kimba
State electorate(s) Flinders
Federal Division(s) Grey
Localities around Buckleboo:
Thurlga
Yeltana
Gawler Ranges Buckleboo Cunyarie
Pinkawillinie Conservation Park Pinkawillinie Cortlinye

Buckleboo is a wheat farming community 35 km northwest of Kimba, on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.

Buckleboo is home to 'Buckleboo Park' which consists of 6 tennis courts and an oval for Australian Rules Football and Cricket. Nicknamed the Club in the Scrub many have played and savoured their time at Buckleboo.

Buckleboo was until 2005 the railhead for the Eyre Peninsula Railway, a narrow gauge railway to haul grain via Kimba and Cummins to Port Lincoln for export. It was proclaimed in 1925 and named after the adjacent pastoral run.[2] There was a school at Buckleboo from 1929 to 1949.[3] The silos at the former railway station and the few remaining buildings are surrounded by the Buckleboo Conservation Reserve, proclaimed in 1990.[4]

The district also includes the Moongi Conservation Reserve further along the railway survey, beyond where tracks were ever laid. Moongi also had a school[5][6] and a Methodist Hall which opened in 1932.[7]

Buckleboo is in the District Council of Kimba local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Flinders and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Grey. Information regarding the climate and soils for the Buckleboo district can be found under the corresponding entry for Kimba, South Australia.

References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Buckleboo (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
  2. ↑ <"Placename Details: Buckleboo". Property Location Browser. 12 August 2009. SA0010293. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Buckleboo". Place Names of South Australia. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Placename Details: Buckelboo Conservation Reserve". Property Location Browser. 12 August 2009. SA0046972. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "NEW SCHOOLS.". Port Lincoln Times (SA: National Library of Australia). 6 July 1928. p. 1. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "OUTBACK SCHOOLS. (picture)". The Chronicle (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 23 July 1931. p. 32. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "REPORTS FROM RURAL CENTRES.". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 19 November 1932. p. 11. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

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