Shire of Ballan

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Ballan
state = vic
region =
area = 919.45
est = 1862
seat = Ballan
pop = 4,900 (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, Talbot
near-nw = Bungaree
near-n = Daylesford and Glenlyon
near-ne = Kyneton
near-w = Buninyong
near-e = Bacchus Marsh
near-sw = Buninyong
near-s = Bannockburn
near-se = Corio
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Ballan was a Local Government Area located about convert|75|km|mi|0 west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|919.45|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1862 until 1994.

History

Ballan was first incorporated as a district on 14 October 1862, and became a shire on 2 November 1864. On 9 October 1921, part of the shire was annexed to the Shire of Kyneton.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=581-582 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 15 December 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with the Shire of Bacchus Marsh into the Shire 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

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

Towns and Localities

* Ballan
* Blackwood
* Blakeville
* Bunding
* Fiskville
* Gordon
* Greendale
* Ingliston
* Morrisons
* Mount Egerton
* Mount Wallace

Population

* Estimate in 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References