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Hansborough
South Australia
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Ruins located at Hansborough
Hansborough is located in South Australia
Hansborough
Hansborough
Location in South Australia
Established 1865 (town)
16 March 2000 (locality)
Abolished 13 August 1936 (town)
Postcode(s) 5374
Elevation 333 m (1,093 ft)
Location
LGA(s)
  • Regional Council of Goyder
  • Light Regional Council
State electorate(s) Stuart
Federal Division(s)
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
21.1 °C
70 °F
9.3 °C
49 °F
448.6 mm
17.7 in
Localities around Hansborough:
Buchanan Eudunda Eudunda
Buchanan
Bagot Well
Hansborough Eudunda
Dutton
Bagot Well Bagot Well
St Kitts
Dutton
Footnotes Adjoining localities

Hansborough is a locality along the Thiele Highway, in South Australia's Mid North region. It is situated 9 kilometres south-west of Eudunda and 18 kilometres north-east of Kapunda. The Light River runs through the locality.

A town was surveyed in July 1865 and named after Frederick Hansborough Dutton (1812–1890), an early pastoralist and an overlander, who founded Anlaby Station, near Kapunda. It was declared as ceasing to exist on 13 August 1936. Boundaries were created for the part of the locality within the Light Regional Council on 16 March 2000 and for the part within the Regional Council of Goyder which includes the ceased Government Town of Hansborough on 24 August 2000.

The Morgan railway line opened in 1878 from Kapunda. Passenger services ceased in 1968 and the line was formally closed in 1994.

The Hundred of Neales School, later Freshwater Creek School, opened in 1927 in a former manager's residence on the Kingscourt property and closed in 1940.

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