- Shire of Bacchus Marsh
Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Bacchus Marsh
state = vic
region =
area = 565
est = 1862
seat = Bacchus Marsh
pop = 12,590 (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 = Bourke, Grant
near-nw = Kyneton
near-n = Pyalong
near-ne = Gisborne
near-w = Ballan
near-e = Melton
near-sw = Ballan
near-s = Corio
near-se = Werribee
_noautocat = yesThe Shire of Bacchus Marsh was a Local Government Area located about convert|50|km|mi|0 west of
Melbourne , the state capital of Victoria,Australia . The shire covered an area of convert|565|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1862 until 1994.History
Bacchus Marsh was first incorporated as a district on 14 October 1862, and became a shire on 23 January 1871. On 15 March 1911 it annexed part of the Lara riding of the
Shire of Corio , and on 5 February 1921 part of the Shire was annexed toShire of Kyneton .cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=576 Accessed atState Library of Victoria , La Trobe Reading Room.]On 15 December 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with the
Shire of Ballan into theShire of Moorabool , which had earlier that year been created by merging the Bungaree and parts of Buninyong. [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
Bacchus Marsh was divided into four ridings on 1975, each of which elected three councillors:
* Bacchus Riding
* Coimadai Riding
* Parwan Riding
* Pentland RidingTowns and Localities
* Bacchus Marsh
* Balliang
* Coimadai
* Darley
* Hopetoun Park
* Korobeit
* Maddingley
* Myrniong
* Parwan
* RowsleyPopulation
* Estimate in 1958 Victorian Year Book.
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