Shire of Eltham

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Eltham
state = vic
region = NE Melbourne
area = 277.13
est = 1856
seat = Eltham
pop = 44,800 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

logosize =


imagesize = 150
caption = Location in outer Melbourne
county = Evelyn
near-nw = Whittlesea
near-n = Yea
near-ne = Yea
near-w = Diamond Valley
near-e = Healesville
near-sw = Heidelberg
near-s = Doncaster & Templestowe
near-se = Lillydale
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Eltham was a Local Government Area located about convert|25|km|mi|0 northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|277.13|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1856 until 1994.

History

Eltham was first incorporated as a district on 26 September 1856, and became a shire on 6 April 1871. In 1912 it lost some of its area to the Shire of Healesville.

On 18 June 1958, it lost its convert|218|km2|sqmi|1|sing=on|abbr=on East Riding to Shire of Healesville. This area comprised Yarra Glen, Dixons Creek and parts of Christmas Hills.cite web|url=http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/eltham.html|title=Australian Places - Eltham|author=Monash University|year=1999|accessdate=2008-01-05] It also lost part of North Riding near Kinglake to the Shire of Yea on 1 October 1972.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=666-667 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 15 December 1994, the Shire was abolished. The Kinglake district were transferred to the new Shire of Murrindindi, while Montmorency and Lower Plenty in the shire's far southwest were transferred to City of Banyule. The rest became part of the new Shire of Nillumbik. [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=4,10|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2007-12-16]

Wards

The shire was divided into three ridings on 16 March 1955, each of which elected three councillors:
* Central Riding
* North Riding
* West Riding

uburbs and Localities

* Briar Hill (split with Shire of Diamond Valley)
* Christmas Hills (split with Shire of Healesville)
* Cottles Bridge
* Eltham
* Greensborough (split with Shire of Diamond Valley)
* Hurstbridge (split with City of Whittlesea and Shire of Diamond Valley)
* Kangaroo Ground
* Kinglake (split with Shire of Yea)
* Lower Plenty
* Montmorency
* Panton Hill
* Research
* Smiths Gully
* St Andrews
* Strathewen
* Warrandyte North
* Watsons Creek
* Wattle Glen (split with Shire of Diamond Valley)

Population

* Estimate in 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References