Kainton, South Australia

Kainton is a small town in the Australian state of South Australia situated about 10 km south of Paskeville in the upper Yorke Peninsula.

Not to be confused with Keyneton, South Australia.

Kainton South Australia
Kainton
Coordinates	34°7′S 137°54′E
Population	366 (shared with other localities in the ‘State Suburb of Clinton (SA)’) (2011 census).[1][2][lower-alpha 1]
Postcode(s)	5552
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACDT (UTC+10:30)
LGA(s)	Yorke Peninsula Council
Region	Yorke and Mid North[3]
County	Daly[2]
State electorate(s)	Narungga[4]
Federal Division(s)	Grey[5]
Localities around Kainton: Paskeville Paskeville Melton Kulpara Port Arthur Port Arthur Sunnyvale Kainton Port Arthur Gulf St Vincent Arthurton Clinton Centre Clinton Gulf St Vincent
Footnotes	Adjoining localities[2]

The Kainton school closed in 1907, but the "Hundred of Clinton School" was renamed "Kainton School" in 1915.[6]

Kainton is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Narungga and the local government area known as the Yorke Peninsula Council.[2][5][4]

See also

• List of cities and towns in South Australia
• Clinton Conservation Park

Notes and references

Notes

1. For the 2011 census, the ‘State Suburb of Clinton (SA)’ consisted of the localities of Clinton, Clinton Centre, Kainton and Port Arthur

Citations

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Clinton (SA)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
2. "Search result(s) for Kainton (LOCB) (Record No. SA0033456) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Counties", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
3. "Yorke and Mid North SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
4. Narungga (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
5. "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
6. "Manning index of South Australia". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2015.