County of Frome

Frome South Australia
Willochra Plain from the northern foothills of Mount Remarkable in the Hundred of Gregory
Frome
Coordinates	32°44′20″S 138°10′05″E / 32.739°S 138.168°E / -32.739; 138.168Coordinates: 32°44′20″S 138°10′05″E / 32.739°S 138.168°E / -32.739; 138.168
Established	1851
Area	3,910 km2 (1,508 sq mi)
LGA(s)	City of Port Augusta District Council of Mount Remarkable Flinders Ranges Council
Lands administrative divisions around Frome: Manchester Newcastle Granville Manchester Frome Dalhousie York Victoria Victoria

The County of Frome is one of the 49 counties of South Australia in straddling the Mid North and Flinders Ranges regions. It was proclaimed in 1851 by Governor Henry Young and was named for the former Surveyor-General of South Australia, Edward Charles Frome. The iconic Mount Remarkable in the Hundred of Gregory is at the centre of the county.

The earliest local government to be formed in the county was the Corporate Town of Port Augusta, established at Port Augusta in 1875. The adjacent Corporate Town of Davenport was established at Davenport in 1887. The District Council of Davenport was established shortly after in 1888 at Stirling North, under the provisions of the District Councils Act 1887, but was renamed Woolundunga in 1893 to avoid confusion with the adjacent corporate town. The District Council of Wilmington and District Council of Port Germein were established at Wilmington and Port Germein, respectively, by the same 1887 legislation.

In 1932, the Corporated Town of Davenport was annexed by Port Augusta. Wilmington had been renamed Hammond in 1893 but the name was restored when it absorbed much of the abolished Woolundunga in 1933. That same year, the northerly-adjacent District Council of Kanyaka, also established in 1888, occupied a small north portion of the county when it annexed part of the former Woolundunga council area in the hundreds of Woolundunga and Willochra.