Postcode(s) 5560 Ninnes Lochiel Federal division Division of Grey | State electorate(s) Goyder Postal code 5560 | |
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Location 16 km (10 mi) west of Lochiel
11 km (7 mi) north of Kulpara
30 km (19 mi) east of Kadina LGA(s) District Council of Barunga West | ||
Ninnes is a locality at the northeastern corner of Yorke Peninsula and western side of the Mid North of South Australia. It lies where the Upper Yorke Road from Kulpara to Bute is crossed by the road from Paskeville to Lochiel. The dominant industry is broadacre grain and sheep farming.
Map of Ninnes SA 5560, Australia
The cadastral Hundred of Ninnes was proclaimed in 1874 by Governor Anthony Musgrave, and was named after landowner Thomas Ninnes. The District Council of Ninnes was established in 1885, and adopted a former accommodation house as a council chamber. It would also be used as a school until a separate building was constructed six years later. Ninnes Post Office opened on 1 November 1882; its date of closure is unknown.
In 1910, it was reported that "while Ninnes...cannot claim to have built a town, and it is easy to count its public buildings, it is not backward in other things", citing the "substantially built and commodious homesteads" and that as one of "the outlying districts which support the towns, it is enjoying prosperity". The council seat subsequently moved to Bute, which had far outgrown Ninnes, and the council was renamed Bute in 1933.
The modern locality of Ninnes was established in 1998 when boundaries were formalised for "the long established local name". An additional area within Wakefield Regional Council was added to the locality in 2000, but removed and added to Lochiel in 2007 following requests for local residents.