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Brownlow Location in South Australia
Established	2000
Postcode(s)	5374
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	98 km (61 mi) north of Adelaide city centre
LGA(s)	Regional Council of Goyder Mid Murray Council
State electorate(s)	Stuart
Federal Division(s)	Grey
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 21.1 °C 70 °F 9.3 °C 49 °F 477.5 mm 18.8 in
Suburbs around Brownlow: Sutherlands Bower Mount Mary Mount Mary Sutherlands Neales Flat Frankton Brownlow Blanchetown Dutton East Steinfeld Blanchetown
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Brownlow is a place in the Australian state of South Australia. It's about 98 kilometers (61 miles) north-east of the main city, Adelaide.

The area of Brownlow was officially created in two parts. The western part was set up in August 2000. The eastern part was set up in March 2003. Brownlow gets its name from an older land division called the Hundred of Brownlow. This division was named after a person called Charles Henry Brownlow.

Most of the land in Brownlow is used for agriculture. This mainly means "extensive grazing," which is when animals like sheep or cattle roam freely over large areas to eat grass.

Brownlow is part of different government areas. It's in the federal areas of Barker and Grey. For state government, it's in the Stuart district. Locally, it's managed by the Mid Murray Council and the Regional Council of Goyder.

The Hundred of Brownlow

The Hundred of Brownlow is a special type of land division in South Australia. It's like an old-fashioned way of dividing up land for records. This "hundred" contains the modern-day Brownlow area.

It's one of 16 hundreds in the County of Eyre. Governor William Jervois named it in 1883. He named it after Charles Henry Brownlow (1831–1916). Charles Henry Brownlow was an important officer in the British Indian Army at that time.

The Brownlow area you see on maps today covers most of the Hundred of Brownlow. However, small parts of other places also overlap with this old land division. These include Bower and Mount Mary in the north. A small part of Steinfeld is also in the southern part of the Hundred of Brownlow.