Shire of Gordon

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Gordon
state = vic
region =
area = 2028
est = 1885
seat = Boort
pop = 2720 (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 = Gunbower, Gladstone, Tatchera
near-nw = Kerang
near-n = Kerang
near-ne = Cohuna
near-w = Charlton
near-e = Rochester
near-sw = Korong
near-s = East Loddon
near-se = Rochester
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Gordon was a Local Government Area located about convert|245|km|mi|0 north-northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|2028|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1885 until 1995.

History

The Swan Hill District, which initially covered most of northwestern Victoria, was incorporated on 8 July 1862, and became a shire on 14 August 1871. The Shire of Gordon severed and incorporated on 26 May 1885 from parts of the East and West Loddon Ridings and named for the recently deceased Major General Charles Gordon. Gordon annexed part of the South West Riding of the Shire of Kerang on 5 October 1977.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=684-685, 718-20 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 20 January 1995, the Shire was abolished, and merged with the Shires of East Loddon and Korong, the Loddon River district of the Rural City of Marong and surrounding districts into the Shire of Loddon. [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=5,8|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

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

Towns and Localities

* Boort
* Appin South
* Bald Rock
* Barraport
* Canary Island
* Catumnal
* Durham Ox
* Gladfield
* Kow Swamp
* Lake Marmal
* Leaghur
* Loddon Vale
* Mincha
* Minmindie
* Mologa
* Pyramid Hill
* Sylvaterre
* Terrick Terrick
* Yando
* Yarrawalla

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References