22-577: Yatala may refer to any of the following items. For all Australian places named Yatala, the etymology at Hundred of Yatala applies. Place names [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Queensland [ edit ] Yatala, Queensland , a suburb of the Gold Coast South Australia [ edit ] River Torrens in Adelaide, initially known by European explorers as
44-455: A hundred, to also name its county (as is done in some land administration systems such as that of New South Wales ). With the exception of the historic Hundred of Murray (1853–1870), which occupied parts of five counties, all hundreds have been defined as a subset of a single county. The hundreds of South Australia formed the basis for the establishment boundaries of most of the earliest local government bodies (that is, district councils). By
66-883: A prison in Adelaide Yatala Vale, South Australia , a suburb of Adelaide Electoral district of Yatala , historic electorate Yatala, a former suburb in the Corporate Town of Port Adelaide now in Rosewater, South Australia Yatala Harbor , a bay in Spencer Gulf, Yatala Harbour Upper Spencer Gulf Aquatic Reserve , a protected area a misspelling of Yalata (disambiguation) Sri Lanka [ edit ] Yatala Vehera , an ancient Buddhist stupa in Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka Other [ edit ] Yatala (clipper ship)
88-404: A quarter and a half having already been claimed by the early investors or purchased by early settlers. The country sections delineated in the early land surveys generally formed the hundred sections when the first hundreds were proclaimed in 1846 (in the counties of Adelaide and Hindmarsh ). From this time, the government surveyor systematically established new areas to be released by creating
110-642: A sailing ship running between England and South Australia Yatala (harvestman) , an Arachnid genus See also [ edit ] List of ships named Yatala Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Yatala . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yatala&oldid=1254305241 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
132-603: A total value of £35,000 prior to the 1837 settlement. A preliminary land order entitled the buyer to a 1-acre (4,000 m ) town block and an 80-acre (32 ha) section of rural land which was to be chosen by the individual following the earliest land survey after settlement. The initial town survey of Adelaide was completed in March 1837. By February 1839 the surrounding country from coast to foothills , as far south as O'Halloran Hill and north to present-day Grand Junction Road , had been surveyed into country sections, with between
154-692: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hundred of Yatala#Etymology The Hundred of Yatala is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia covering much of the Adelaide metropolitan area north of the River Torrens . It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide stretching from the Torrens in the south to
176-536: The City of Playford ( Sampson Flat west of Shillabeer Road) also overlap the far eastern portion of the hundred. Cadastral divisions of South Australia The lands administrative divisions of South Australia are the cadastral (i.e., comprehensively surveyed and mapped) units of counties and hundreds in South Australia . They are located only in the south-eastern part of the state, and do not cover
198-490: The Little Para River in the north; and spanning from the coast in the west to the Adelaide foothills in the east. It is roughly bisected from east to west by Dry Creek . It was named in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe , Yatala being likely derived from yartala , a Kaurna word referring to the flooded state of the plain either side of Dry Creek after heavy rain. Contemporary Australian linguists believe
220-409: The 1930s most of the settled hundreds in the state had their own district councils. In the case of heavily settled lands, like the hundreds of Adelaide and Yatala , multiple town and city councils shared the governance of a single hundred. In the case of sparsely populated rural lands, adjacent hundreds were represented by a single district council. In every case, the hundred boundaries largely shaped
242-552: The South Australian official gazetteer Placenames Online , with the 21 extra names unused today due to either renaming or failure to adopt proposed names. In 1916, during the First World War , ten hundreds with names of German origin (Basedow, Homburg, Krichauff, North Rhine, Paech, Pflaum, Scherk, Schomburgk, South Rhine, Von Doussa) were proposed for renaming with Aboriginal names, but this only occurred for
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#1732772655819264-456: The Yatala; old name for land beside the river, especially to the north, from which several local names derive: Hundred of Yatala , a cadastral hundred in Adelaide, District Council of Yatala a historic local government area District Council of Yatala South a historic local government area District Council of Yatala North a historic local government area Yatala Labour Prison ,
286-399: The boundaries of a county, and then dividing that into hundreds of approximately the same size. Outside the initial survey area centred on Adelaide, hundreds were surveyed into sections of varying sizes with the intention that the section would support a single viable farm. These sections were available for purchase soon after a hundred was surveyed and proclaimed. Most hundreds had a town near
308-503: The coast at Port Adelaide to the foothills at Tea Tree Gully . Yatala was thus a natural choice for the land administration division in 1846. The Adelaide City council was established in 1842, bringing local government to North Adelaide and the north parklands on the south edge of the hundred. The District Council of Hindmarsh was established in June 1853 and encompassed all the land south west of modern Torrens Road and south of
330-591: The colonists [as "Yatala"] in their endeavours to name [various] things including a government schooner ," the Yatala , in 1865. According to Rob Amery (2009), "Yatala" had been used as a place name by white settlers of the Adelaide Plains since 1836, referring initially to the River Torrens (called Yertala by the Kaurna people while in flood) and later to the land north of the Torrens, stretching from
352-532: The east. Shortly thereafter, in July of the same year, the District Council of Highercombe was established in the east of the hundred, bringing the whole hundred under local governance. As various parts of the original District Council of Yatala were separated — parts north of Dry Creek for Salisbury council and parts in the south for Walkerville and Prospect councils — the original name of 'Yatala'
374-517: The future portside councils of Queenstown and Alberton and Glanville . The District Council of Yatala was established days later and occupied a large central portion of the hundred as well as eastern parts of the Hundred of Port Adelaide . It approximately extended from modern Torrens Road and the North Arm of Barker Inlet in the west to the west border of the modern Tea Tree Gully council in
396-504: The initial boundaries of such district councils, as seen with the large-scale expansion of South Australian local government in the District Councils Act 1887 . In the early days of European settlement in South Australia, land was released in the colony for farming in an orderly manner by the government. Initial land sales were made as a prerequisite to the founding of the colony, with "preliminary land orders" being made to
418-524: The middle, and smaller sections closer to the township. Contemporary definitions of rural real estate in South Australia still typically includes the section number(s) and hundred name. A total of 540 hundreds were proclaimed in the state from 1846 to 1971, but only 535 exist today, following the discontinuation of the hundreds of Murray, Cooper, Randell, Giles and Morphett alongside the Murray River in 1870. A total of 561 names of hundreds are listed in
440-411: The name "Yatala" is derived from "yartala", a Kaurna word which likely means "water running by the side of a river" or "inundation" or "cascade" or similar. South Australian historian Geoff Manning has implied that this refers to the swampy morass that occurred when heavy rain inundated the usually-dry plain either side of Dry Creek . The descriptive term "yartala" is thought to have been "co-opted by
462-417: The whole state. 49 counties have been proclaimed across the southern and southeastern areas of the state historically considered to be arable and thus in need of a cadastre . Within that area, a total of 540 hundreds have been proclaimed, although five were annulled in 1870, and, in some cases, the names reused elsewhere. All South Australian hundreds have unique names, making it unnecessary, when referring to
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#1732772655819484-505: Was obscured and finally lost (to local government) when the last remaining namesake, Yatala South council was renamed in 1935 to Enfield. The following local government areas of South Australia are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the hundred as of 2017 : Parts of the Adelaide Hills Council area ( Paracombe , Houghton , Upper Hermitage and Lower Hermitage , west of Millbrook and Inglewood ) and
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