Shire of Avoca

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Avoca
state = vic
region =
area = 1124
est = 1861
seat = Avoca
pop = 2320 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49-52|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

logosize =


caption = Location in Victoria
county = Gladstone, Kara Kara
near-nw = Kara Kara
near-n = Kara Kara
near-ne = Bet Bet
near-w = Stawell
near-e = Tullaroop
near-sw = Ararat
near-s = Lexton
near-se = Talbot & Clunes
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Avoca was a Local Government Area located about convert|180|km|mi|0 northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|1124|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1861 until 1994.

History

Avoca was first incorporated as a district on 6 December 1861, and became a shire on 28 December 1864. In January 1941, it lost part of its area to the Shire of Lexton.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=571-572 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 23 September 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with Shire of Lexton and Shire of Ripon into the Shire of Pyrenees, with the district around Navarre transferring to the Shire of Northern Grampians. [cite book|url=http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/76E601D6DB55E88ACA25722500049195/$File/12570_1994-95.pdf|title=Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=1 August 1995|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|page=10,11|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

Avoca was divided into three ridings, each of which elected three councillors:
* Avoca Township Riding
* East Riding
* West Riding

Towns and Localities

* Avoca
* Barkly
* Crowlands
* Frenchmans
* Glenlofty
* Homebush
* Lamplough
* Landsborough
* Moonambel
* Natte Yallock
* Navarre
* Percydale
* Rathscar
* Rathscar West
* Redbank
* Tanwood
* Warrenmang
* Wattle Creek

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References