Hundred of Alma

Alma South Australia
Alma
Coordinates	34°14′24″S 138°38′49″E / 34.240°S 138.647°E / -34.240; 138.647Coordinates: 34°14′24″S 138°38′49″E / 34.240°S 138.647°E / -34.240; 138.647
Established	22 May 1856
Area	360 km2 (138 sq mi)
Region	Northern Adelaide Plains
County	Gawler
Lands administrative divisions around Alma: Hall Upper Wakefield Saddleworth Dalkey Alma Gilbert Grace Mudla Wirra Light

The Hundred of Alma is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia spanning the township of Alma and the Alma Plains. The hundred was proclaimed in 1856 in the County of Gawler and named by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell for the River Alma on the Crimean Peninsula, the location of the Battle of the Alma, the first Allied victory in the Crimean War. The hundred is bounded on the north by the Wakefield River and on the south by the Light River

The District Council of Rhynie was the first local government body established within the hundred. It was proclaimed in October 1865 and included approximately the northern half of the hundred. Its establishment was closely followed by that of the just a month later. Stockport council covered approximately the southern half of the hundred as well as small parts of the Hundred of Gilbert and Hundred of Light easterly adjacent. The council area lay either side of the Gilbert River from Giles Corner in the north to the Gilbert's confluence with the River Light at Hamley Bridge in the south.

Fifteen years on, in 1870, the District Council of Alma Plains was established by severing the western halves of Rhynie and Stockport councils. This meant that the hundred was roughly split in half, vertically, by the Gilbert River, with Alma Plains council administering the west and Rhynie and Stockport continuing to administer the east.

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