Lameroo, South Australia

Lameroo
South Australia
Lameroo
Population: 516 (2006 Census)[1]
Established: 1894
Location:
  • 40 km (25 mi) W of Victorian Border
  • 210 km (130 mi) E of Adelaide
LGA: Southern Mallee District Council
State District: Hammond
Federal Division: Barker
Localities around Lameroo:
Smithville Billiatt Conservation Park Karte
Parrakie Lameroo Parilla
Coonalpyn Ngarkat Conservation Park Scorpion Springs Conservation Park

Lameroo is a town in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. It is on the Mallee Highway about 40 km west of the Victorian border, or 210 km east of Adelaide. It is primarily a service town for the surrounding rural areas, growing grain and sheep. At the 2006 census, Lameroo had a population of 516.[1]

Situated in the town is Lameroo Regional Community School, which is the school not only for Lameroo youth but also surrounding towns as Geranium, Parrakie, Parilla and Wilkawatt. Lameroo is home to the Lameroo Football club, The Lameroo Hawks, trained by ex AFL footballer Rodney 'Rocket' Maynard, former player for the Adelaide Crows.

Land in the Murray Mallee region was first taken up on pastoral lease in the late 1850s. For the first twenty years there were several lessees; the area had limited grazing during this time.

After a well was dug at Lameroo, then known as Wow Wow Plain, in 1884, and settlement on Wow Wow Plain became permanent.

The land was surveyed in 1894 and the initial survey of Wow Wow Plain gave each block some natural open land to start cultivating. The town reserve was proclaimed in 1894 and a Government well excavated. Much of the land that is now in the District Council of Lameroo was released for pastoral ownership in about 1858.

Lameroo celebrated its centenary in 2006, based on it being 100 years since the railway line was built through Lameroo.

Attractions

Lameroo is sandwiched between the Billiatt Conservation Park to the north, and the Ngarkat Conservation Park to the south. Both parks are reserves for bushwalkers and nature enthusiasts. In the Spring, native Australian wildflowers abound in the Ngarkat, while the Billiatt offers native fauna such as kangaroos and mallee fowl.

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Lameroo (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=UCL411800&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 9 August 2011. 

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