Shire of Bacchus Marsh

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Bacchus Marsh
state = vic
region =
area = 565
est = 1862
seat = Bacchus Marsh
pop = 12,590 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49-52|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

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caption = Location in Victoria
county = Bourke, Grant
near-nw = Kyneton
near-n = Pyalong
near-ne = Gisborne
near-w = Ballan
near-e = Melton
near-sw = Ballan
near-s = Corio
near-se = Werribee
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Bacchus Marsh was a Local Government Area located about convert|50|km|mi|0 west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|565|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1862 until 1994.

History

Bacchus Marsh was first incorporated as a district on 14 October 1862, and became a shire on 23 January 1871. On 15 March 1911 it annexed part of the Lara riding of the Shire of Corio, and on 5 February 1921 part of the Shire was annexed to Shire of Kyneton.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=576 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 15 December 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with the Shire of Ballan into the Shire of Moorabool, which had earlier that year been created by merging the Bungaree and parts of Buninyong. [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=9|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

Bacchus Marsh was divided into four ridings on 1975, each of which elected three councillors:
* Bacchus Riding
* Coimadai Riding
* Parwan Riding
* Pentland Riding

Towns and Localities

* Bacchus Marsh
* Balliang
* Coimadai
* Darley
* Hopetoun Park
* Korobeit
* Maddingley
* Myrniong
* Parwan
* Rowsley

Population

* Estimate in 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References