Shire of Healesville

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Healesville
state = vic
region = NE Melbourne
area = 466.20
est = 1887
seat = Healesville
pop = 12,300 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

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imagesize = 150
caption = Location in outer Melbourne
county = Evelyn, Anglesey
near-nw = Eltham
near-n = Yea
near-ne = Alexandra
near-w = Eltham
near-e = Upper Yarra
near-sw = Doncaster & Templestowe
near-s = Lillydale
near-se = Upper Yarra
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The Shire of Healesville was a Local Government Area located about convert|60|km|mi|0 northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|466.20|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1887 until 1994.

History

Healesville was first incorporated as a shire on 30 September 1887. It annexed part of the Shire of Yea on 21 April 1925, and part of the Shire of Eltham on 18 June 1958, while losing land to Shire of Alexandra on two occasions—1 October 1963 and 1 October 1984.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=698-699 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 15 December 1994, the Shire was abolished and merged with most of the Shire of Sherbrooke and all of the Shires of Lillydale and Upper Yarra to form the Shire of Yarra Ranges. [cite book|url=http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/76E601D6DB55E88ACA25722500049195/$File/12570_1994-95.pdf|title=Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=1 August 1995|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|page=12|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2007-12-16]

Wards

The shire was divided into three ridings, each of which elected three councillors:
* Badger Riding
* Sugarloaf Riding
* Watts Riding

uburbs and Localities

* Badger Creek
* Bend of Islands
* Castella
* Christmas Hills (split with Shire of Eltham)
* Chum Creek
* Dixons Creek
* Healesville
* Steels Creek
* Tarrawarra
* Toolangi
* Yarra Glen
* Yering

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References