Shire of Korong

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Korong
state = vic
region =
area = 238.5
est = 1862
seat = Wedderburn
pop = 3480 (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
near-nw = Charlton
near-n = Gordon
near-ne = Gordon
near-w = Charlton
near-e = East Loddon
near-sw = Kara Kara
near-s = Bet Bet
near-se = Marong
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Korong was a Local Government Area located about convert|75|km|mi|0 west-northwest of Bendigo in western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|238.5|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1862 until 1995.

History

Korong was first incorporated as a district on 8 July 1862, and became a shire on 6 September 1864. On 1 February 1861, it annexed the Borough of Inglewood, which had been created a century earlier.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=724-725 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 Gordon, 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=8|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

Korong was divided into three ridings, each of which elected three councillors:
* Central Riding
* North Riding
* South Riding

Towns and Localities

* Borung
* Fernihurst
* Glenalbyn
* Inglewood
* Kingower
* Korong Vale
* Rheola
* Wedderburn
* Wychitella

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References