Shire of Beverley

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Shire of Beverley Western Australia
Population: • Density:	1,461 (2001 census) 0.62/km²
Established:	1871
Area:	2,372.2 km²
Mayor:	Judy Shilling
Council Seat:	Beverley
Region:	Wheatbelt
State District:	Avon
Federal Division:	Pearce

Website: http://www.beverley.wa.gov.au

This article is about a local government area. For the town, see Beverley, Western Australia.

The Shire of Beverley is a Local Government Area of Western Australia centred on the town of Beverley (32°06′S 116°55′E; post code: 6304), which is about 130km south-east of the capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of about 1,460 km² in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia generally to the west of Great Southern Highway, starting 20 km outside Armadale in the Darling Scarp and extending eastwards beyond the scarp into agricultural lands. It has a population of 1,461 (ABS 2001).

Just over half of the Shire's population live in the town, which provides facilities and industrial support to a region of 2,300 km² where the predominant occupation is broad acre agriculture, particularly livestock and cropping.

1 History
2 Wards
3 Towns
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

In 1871, the Beverley Road Board (later Shire Council) was created to manage a territory with immense boundaries, taking in land all the way east to Eucla on the South Australian border. Its scope was so broad that from 1892 to 1913, the town of Beverley had its own municipal council operating separately from the Road Board. However, over the years, each of the major towns developed their own road board, and by 1923 the present boundaries were established. In 1961, the Road Board was renamed to the Beverley Shire Council.^[1]