Shire of Bairnsdale

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Bairnsdale
state = vic
region =
area = 2277.9
est = 1867
seat = Bairnsdale
pop = 7670 (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 = Tanjil, Dargo, Wonnangatta
near-nw = Avon
near-n = Omeo
near-ne = Omeo
near-w = Avon
near-e = Tambo
near-sw = Rosedale
near-s = Rosedale
near-se = "Bass Strait"
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Bairnsdale was a Local Government Area located about convert|280|km|mi|0 east of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|2277.9|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1867 until 1994. For its first hundred years it governed both Bairnsdale and the surrounding area; however, after that time, Bairnsdale had its own city government.

History

Bairnsdale was first incorporated as a district on 30 April 1867, and became a shire on 14 July 1868. On 6 January 1882, what is now the Shire of Tambo, centred on Lakes Entrance, split away from Bairnsdale. On 27 May 1914 and 1 October 1964, it lost some land to its west to the Shire of Avon. On 31 May 1967, after a poll of ratepayers, the Centre Riding and parts of the East Riding severed to form the Town of Bairnsdale (which became a City in 1990). cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=579 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 2 December 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with City of Bairnsdale, Shire of Orbost, Shire of Tambo, most of Shire of Omeo and the Boole Boole Peninsula from Shire of Rosedale into the Shire of East Gippsland. The West Dargo region merged into the Shire of Wellington. [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=6, 12|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

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

Towns and Localities

* Eagle Point
* Fernbank
* Iguana Creek
* Lindenow
* Lucknow
* Mount Taylor
* Paynesville
* Walba
* Wy Yung

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References