District Council of Balaklava
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District Council of Balaklava South Australia |
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 District Council of Balaklava
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| Coordinates | 34°08′46″S 138°24′47″E / 34.14611°S 138.41306°ECoordinates: 34°08′46″S 138°24′47″E / 34.14611°S 138.41306°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1877 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1983 | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Balaklava | ||||||||||||||
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The District Council of Balaklava was a local government area seated at Balaklava in South Australia from 1877 to 1983.
The District Council of Balaklava was officially proclaimed as incorporating the entire Hundred of Balaklava on 20 December 1877. The council was divided into five wards: Township, East, North, West and South. The five inaugural councillors appointed on the date of the proclamation were John Verco, J.P. (Township ward), August Winter (East ward), George Hicks (North ward), Samuel Alderman (West ward), and Robert Frederick Ware (South ward).
On 14 November 1878, the entire Hundred of Stow was annexed to the Balaklava council along with an eastern strip of the Hundred of Goyder, following petitioning by resident landowners.
In 1911 a part of the western ward of Watchman's Plains was severed from the District Council of Hall and annexed by Balaklava council.
In 1912, at the instigation of resident landowners, a southern portion of the Hundred of Everard south of Everard Road and including the Everard Central township, was severed from the District Council of Snowtown and added to the Balaklava council as part of its Stow ward.
In 1935 Balaklava council gained the new wards of Halbury and Wakefield in the south half of the Hundred of Hall from the defunct Hall council as part of the statewide consolidation of local government bodies that occurred that year.
In 1983 the Balaklava council ceased to exist when it amalgamated with the councils of Port Wakefield and Owen to form the District Council of Wakefield Plains, but the council seat remained in the town of Balaklava.
The following adjacent local government bodies co-existed with the Balaklava council:
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