Shire of Bungaree

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Bungaree
state = vic
region =
area = 228
est = 1863
seat = Leigh Creek
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 = Grant, Talbot, Grenville, Ripon
near-nw = Ballarat
near-n = Creswick
near-ne = Daylesford and Glenlyon
near-w = Ballarat
near-e = Ballan
near-sw = Ballaarat
near-s = Buninyong
near-se = Ballan
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Bungaree was a Local Government Area located northeast of the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|228|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1863 until 1994.

History

Bungaree was first incorporated as a district on 16 January 1863, and became a shire on 27 January 1871. The shire was originally divided into three ridings in August 1879, but after it lost a small section to the City of Ballaarat on 31 March 1930, it was redivided into two ridings. All divisions were abolished on 6 August 1988 and the council from then until its dissolution had nine councillors. cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=620-621 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 6 May 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with Shires of Bacchus Marsh, Ballan and parts of Buninyong into the Shire of Moorabool.

Towns and Localities

* Bungaree
* Brown Hill
* Bullarook
* Chapel Flat
* Claretown
* Clarkes Hill
* Glen Park
* Gong Gong
* Invermay
* Leigh Creek
* Nerrina
* Pootilla
* Wallace

Population

* Estimate in 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References