Shire of Maldon

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Shire of Maldon
Victoria

Location in Victoria

Population

3,100 (1992)^[1]

• Density

5.65/km² (14.62/sq mi)

Established

1858

Area

549 km² (212.0 sq mi)

Council seat

Maldon

County

Talbot

LGAs around Shire of Maldon:
Bet Bet	Marong	Strathfieldsaye
Tullaroop	Shire of Maldon	Metcalfe
Tullaroop	Newstead	Castlemaine (C)

The Shire of Maldon was a local government area about 140 kilometres (87 mi) northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, and 35 kilometres (22 mi) southwest of the regional city of Bendigo. The shire covered an area of 549 square kilometres (212.0 sq mi), and existed from 1858 until 1995.

History

Maldon was first incorporated as a municipality on 6 August 1858, then as a road district on 2 September 1863. It was proclaimed a shire on 12 January 1864.^[2]

On 20 January 1995, the Shire of Maldon was abolished, and, along with the City of Castlemaine and the Shires of Metcalfe and Newstead, was merged into the newly created Shire of Mount Alexander.^[3]

Wards

The Shire of Maldon was divided into three ridings on 1 April 1988, each of which elected three councillors:

Gowar Riding
Nuggetty Riding
Tarrengower Riding

Towns and localities

Baringhup
Cair Curran
Gowar
Maldon
Muckleford
Neereman
Nuggetty
Porcupine Flat
Tarrengower
Walmer
Woodbrook

Population

Year	Population
1954	2,030
1958	2,040*
1961	2,008
1966	1,953
1971	1,759
1976	1,864
1981	2,221
1986	2,563
1991	2,968

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References

↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office (1994). Victorian Year Book. p. 52. ISSN 0067-1223.
↑ Victorian Municipal Directory. Brunswick: Arnall & Jackson. 1992. pp. 751–752. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.
↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (1 August 1995). Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification. Commonwealth of Australia. p. 10. ISBN 0-642-23117-6. Retrieved 2008-01-05.

v t e Former local government areas in regional Victoria

Cities, towns and boroughs	Ararat Bairnsdale Ballaarat Benalla Bendigo Camperdown (T) Castlemaine Colac Eaglehawk (B) Echuca Geelong Geelong West Hamilton Horsham Kerang (B) Koroit (B) Kyabram (T) Maryborough Mildura Moe Morwell Newtown Port Fairy (B) Portland Queenscliffe (B) St Arnaud (T) Sale Sebastopol (B) Shepparton South Barwon Stawell Swan Hill Traralgon Wangaratta Warrnambool Wonthaggi (B)

Shires and rural cities	Alberton Alexandra Arapiles Ararat Avoca Avon Bacchus Marsh Bairnsdale Ballan Ballarat Bannockburn Barrabool Bass Beechworth Belfast Bellarine (RC) Benalla Bet Bet Birchip Bright Broadford Buln Buln Bungaree Buninyong Charlton Chiltern Cobram Cohuna Colac Corio Creswick Daylesford and Glenlyon Deakin Dimboola Donald Dundas Dunmunkle East Loddon Euroa Gisborne Glenelg Gordon Goulburn Grenville Hampden Heytesbury Heywood Huntly Kaniva Kara Kara Karkarooc Kerang Kilmore Korong Korumburra Kowree Kyneton Leigh Lexton Lowan McIvor Maffra Maldon Mansfield Marong (RC) Metcalfe Mildura Minhamite Mirboo Mortlake Mount Rouse Myrtleford Narracan Nathalia Newham and Woodend Newstead Numurkah Omeo Orbost Otway Oxley Phillip Island Pyalong Ripon Rochester Rodney Romsey Rosedale Rutherglen Seymour (RC) Shepparton South Gippsland Stawell Strathfieldsaye Swan Hill Talbot and Clunes Tallangatta Tambo Traralgon Tullaroop Tungamah Upper Murray Upper Yarra Violet Town Walpeup Wangaratta Wannon Waranga Warracknabeal Warragul (RC) Warrnambool Wimmera Winchelsea Wodonga (RC) Woorayl Wycheproof Yackandandah Yarrawonga Yea

Coordinates: 37°00′S 144°04′E / 37.000°S 144.067°E / -37.000; 144.067

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