Shire of Cobram

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Cobram
state = vic
region =
area = 322
est = 1953
seat = Cobram
pop = 6750 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=52|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

logosize =


caption = Location in Victoria
county = Moira
near-nw = Numurkah
near-n = "Berrigan (NSW)"
near-ne = "Berrigan (NSW)"
near-w = Numurkah
near-e = Tungamah
near-sw = Numurkah
near-s = Tungamah
near-se = Tungamah
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Cobram was a Local Government Area located on the Murray River in the Goulburn Valley region about convert|240|km|mi|0 north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|322|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1953 until 1994.

History

The Shire of Cobram's origins lay in the North West Riding of the Shire of Tungamah, which was first incorporated on 15 May 1878. Cobram's development arose from irrigation projects developed in the 1930s—after World War II, returned servicemen were allocated irrigated holdings for fruit orchards and dairy farms, and Italian immigrants also took up land in the area. [cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20030424084712/www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/cobram.html|title=Australian Places - Cobram|author=Monash University|year=1999|accessdate=2008-01-06] A town plan was drafted in 1949, and industrial and commercial growth increased. On 1 April 1953, Cobram was severed from Tungamah and became a Shire in its own right.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=629-630, 863-864 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 18 November 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with the Shires of Nathalia, Numurkah, Tungamah and Yarrawonga into the Shire of Moira. [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

Cobram was divided into four ridings , each of which elected three councillors:
* North Riding
* South Riding
* East Riding
* West Riding

Towns and Localities

* Cobram
* Katamatite
* Koonoomoo
* Muckatah
* Yarroweyah

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References