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Collinsville Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in South Australia.
The property is situated approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Hallett and 180 kilometres (112 mi) north of Adelaide.
The property is best known as a merino stud. The stud was responsible for about one third of the genetics in the Australian sheep flock.
The property was established by John Collins in 1889. At his time the property occupied an area of 50,000 acres (20,234 ha). He named the property Collinsville and established a stud in 1895 with ewes from Koonana.
Following flooding in the creek in 2011 bones of diprotodon were found on the property. The fossils were taken to the South Australian Museum who sent a team of scientists to the site where a full adult skeleton was found nearby.
The Handbury family had purchased the property in 1995 from receivers for A$7 million. Collinsville grew 30% in size under the management of the Handburys. They put the station on the market to be auctioned in 2013. The 56,903 hectares (140,610 acres) property was expected to fetch over A$5 million. It was to be sold without the flock of 5,000 sheep it was stocked with at the time, these were to be sent to the family's Arcoona property.
The property is composed of flat and hilly terrain with areas of saltbush and mallee scrub along with bluebush plains.