Shire of Omeo

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Omeo
state = vic
region =
area = 5641
est = 1872
seat = Omeo
pop = 1680 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49-52|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

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caption = Location in Victoria
county = Bogong, Benambra, Dargo, Tambo
near-nw = Bright
near-n = Tallangatta
near-ne = Upper Murray
near-w = Bright
near-e = Tambo
near-sw = Avon
near-s = Bairnsdale
near-se = Tambo
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Omeo was a Local Government Area located about convert|390|km|mi|0 east-northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|5641|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1872 until 1994.

History

Omeo was first incorporated as a shire on 25 October 1872.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=796-797 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 2 December 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with City and Shire of Bairnsdale, Shire of Tambo and the Boole Boole Peninsula from Shire of Rosedale into the Shire of East Gippsland. The Dinner Plain district merged into the Alpine Shire which had been created two weeks earlier. [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=4,6|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

Omeo was divided into four ridings on 15 January 1957, each of which elected three councillors:
* Omeo Riding
* Ensay Riding
* Hinnomunjie Riding
* Tongio Riding

Towns and Localities

* Omeo
* Benambra
* Brookville
* Cassilis
* Dinner Plain
* Doctors Flat
* Ensay
* Hinnomunjie
* Swifts Creek
* Tambo Crosisng
* Tongio
* Uplands

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References