Yeelanna, South Australia
| Yeelanna South Australia | |||||||||||||
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  Yeelanna | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°08′24″S 135°43′44″E / 34.14000°S 135.72889°ECoordinates: 34°08′24″S 135°43′44″E / 34.14000°S 135.72889°E | ||||||||||||
| Population | 230 (shared with other localities in the "State Suburb of Yeelanna") (2011 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1904 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5632 | ||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||
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Yeelanna (an Aboriginal word meaning Local Spring) is a town on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in South Australia located about 77 kilometres (48 mi) north of Port Lincoln.[2] It is on the Tod Highway and Eyre Peninsula Railway between Lock and Cummins.
Yeelanna has a rich history, with the first settlers coming to the district in 1904. The township was surveyed in 1908, and had a policemen in the early days who lived in a tent, and there were two brick cells there for the wrong doers. A large dam was dug in 1909 and supplied the township in the early days, and later was connected to the Yeelanna oval to water it for football and cricket. Yeelanna had a butcher shop, a blacksmith shop, and a 19-room hotel in the early days. The hotel was built in 1912 but demolished in 1924, and the stone was transported to Kimba to build the current Kimba Gateway Hotel. Also, there was a bank, a bakery until the 1950s, a boarding house that opened in 1910, and a primary school that opened in 1908 and closed in 1972. The school is now the Bellwood Museum. There was a railway station, five railway cottages that were demolished in the mid to late 1970s, and a couple of mechanical businesses. The town had two shops in the early 1980s, with one being also a post office. The last shop closed was the Yeelanna General Store in the late 1980s. Five businesses had petrol bowsers, the last two were removed in the 1980s or 1990s. There is still one mechanical business.
The oval was used until around 2003–04 when the oval was last used by the Karkoo/Yeelanna cricket club. It has since been sold and a new house built on it. The adjacent tennis and netball courts remain in public ownership.
The town has a Hall with public toilets, a post office in one of the front rooms of the Yeelanna Hall, grain silos that were built in the 1960s and a railway line that has been their since around 1908 and transports grain to Port Lincoln for export, and fourteen houses.
The town has a Uniting Church, a CFS brigade, an Agriculture Bureau that has existed since 1908, a museum called Bellwood Museum, and a historic cemetery. The town has a table tennis club, that plays its home matches in the Yeelanna Hall, and was established in 1939.
The town is represented in a local Football and Netball clubs called United Yeelanna, that in 2014 won the football Premierships in the A,B, and colts (under 16s) grades, and in the netball won the Premierships in the A-Reserves, and B-grade, and also is represented in a local cricket club called Karkoo/Yeelanna. Yeelanna had a tennis club until the late 1980s, when the club merged with neighbouring the club at Karkoo.
The Yeelanna district is known for its extremely fertile farming land, where nearly all farms in the district are continuously cropped.
Yeelanna Uniting Church is part of the Western Eyre Uniting Churches Parish. The Church is located in Bell Street, opposite the museum and welcomes people from many different Christian backgrounds. A Sunday school and youth group operate from the church.
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References
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Yeelanna". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ "2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2009.