Yatala Vale, South Australia

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Yatala Vale
Adelaide, South Australia

Postcode:

5126

Location:

9 km from Modbury

LGA:

City of Tea Tree Gully

State District:

Little Para

Federal Division:

Makin

Suburbs around Yatala Vale
	Gould Creek
Golden Grove	Yatala Vale	Upper Hermitage
Fairview Park

Yatala Vale (34°46′55″S, 138°44′35″E; post code: 5126) is an outer northeastern rural suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Tea Tree Gully local government area, and is adjacent to Golden Grove and Fairview Park, as well as the rural districts of Upper Hermitage and Gould Creek.

1 Origin of the name
2 History
3 Geography
4 Facilities
5 Transport
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

Yatala is an Aboriginal word from the Kaurna nation which means "water running by the side of a river", and is used to refer to the entire lands north of the River Torrens from Port Adelaide to Tea Tree Gully, but has been used by white settlers as far back as 1836.

[edit] History

Yatala Vale was and is used for agriculture and viticulture.

[edit] Geography

The southern boundary of Yatala Vale is defined by Yatala Vale Road, with the rest of the suburb filling an uneven area bounded by the Golden Grove sand quarries to the west, the Little Para Reservoir to the north and the Little Para River to the east.^[1]