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Baldina
South Australia
Baldina; South Australia
	Baldina
Coordinates	33°41′20″S 139°04′44″E / 33.688920°S 139.0788°E
Population	12 (SAL 2021)
Postcode(s)	5417
LGA(s)	Regional Council of Goyder
State electorate(s)	Stuart
Federal division(s)	Grey
	Localities around Baldina:
Footnotes	Coordinates

Baldina is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder.^[2] It was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name".^[3]

The name Baldina stems from an Aboriginal word for a set of springs on Baldina Creek. The name was used for two pastoral runs in the area: the Baldina Run, established by Henry Ayers in 1851, and the Baldina Creek Run by Alfred Barker in 1855–1856.^[3] The cadastral Hundred of Baldina was proclaimed on 30 December 1875; the hundred boundaries also include roughly half of modern Worlds End and a section of Burra Eastern Districts.^[4]

Baldina School opened in 1885 and closed in 1930, held in a Lutheran chapel.^[3]^[5] There were at least four former churches in the Hundred of Baldina: the Upper Bright (Baldina) Lutheran Church (1887-1960), the Baldina Plains (St Paul's) Lutheran Church (1878-1913) east of the Burra-Morgan Road, the Baldina Methodist Church, and the Douglas Primitive Methodist Church.^[6]^[7] A hotel, Midwinter's Hotel, was licensed in 1880 and served as a local meeting place, but was destroyed by fire in 1887.^[8]^[9] Baldina also once had its own post office.^[3]

The locality also includes the Red Banks Conservation Park, claimed to be one of the richest megafauna sites in Australia, and the Baldina pastoral station.^[3] Baldina Cemetery is now located in Burra Eastern Districts due to changes to local boundaries.^[10]^[11]

There are also two former towns within the current boundaries: Douglas and Kilto. Douglas, along Eastern Road in the north of Baldina, was surveyed in March 1877 and declared to have ceased to exist on 18 June 1981.^[12] Kilto, now in the south of Baldina, was gazetted as an unbounded locality; it had originally been named Klaebes, but was one of the Germanic place names renamed during World War I.^[13]^[14] Klaebes Post Office opened in August 1879, closed in December 1910, and reopened around 1913; its final closure date is unknown.^[15]^[16]

References

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Baldina (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Search result(s) for Baldina, 5417". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Search result(s) for Baldina, 5417". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
^ "Search result for 'Hundred of Baldina (HD)' (Record no SA0004313) with the following layers selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties' and 'Hundreds'". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
^ "BALDINA AND WORLDS END". The Kapunda Herald. Vol. XL, no. 3, 251. South Australia. 12 August 1904. p. 7. Retrieved 26 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Churches in Burra". Burra History Group Inc. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
^ Emmaus to Worlds End: a history of the Robertstown Council Area. District Council of Robertstown. 1986. p. 192.
^ "NORTH DISTRICT LICENSING BENCH". Adelaide Observer. Vol. XXXVII, no. 2018. South Australia. 5 June 1880. p. 28. Retrieved 27 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "FIFTY YEARS AGO". The Northern Argus. Vol. LXVII, no. 3, 654. South Australia. 21 May 1937. p. 1. Retrieved 26 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Search result for 'Baldina Cemetery' (Record no SA0004313) with the following layers selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties' and 'Hundreds'". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
^ "Red Banks Conservation Park". National Parks South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
^ "Search result(s) for Douglas, Gtwn". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
^ "Search result(s) for Kilto, Locu". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
^ "Search result(s) for Klaebes, Locu". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
^ "Klaebes (1)". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
^ "Klaebes (2)". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.