Kielpa, South Australia

Kielpa South Australia
Kielpa
Coordinates	33°35′15″S 136°13′25″E[1]
Population	55 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established	4 June 1914 (town) 23 December 1998 (locality)[3][4]
Postcode(s)	5642
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
LGA(s)	District Council of Cleve[1]
State electorate(s)	Flinders
Federal division(s)	Grey
Localities around Kielpa: Boonerdo Darke Peak Campoona Boonerdo Kielpa Campoona Murlong Rudall Campoona
Footnotes	Adjoining localities[1]

Kielpa is a town and locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.[1] It is midway between Rudall and Darke Peak on the Eyre Peninsula Railway.[1]

Kielpa once had a school and a post office, however neither remains. The bulk grain silos by the railway line are still in use for barley.[5] Kielpa was proposed as the junction for a branch railway line to Campoona and Mangalo, and the railway was authorised by parliament to be built in 1916,[6] however it was never constructed, and by 1929, the Public Works Committee determined that wheat could be more efficiently transported by motor lorry than by building this line.[7]

References

1. "Search results for 'Kielpa, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Government Towns', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Kielpa (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
3. Bice, John G. (4 June 1914). "Town of Kielpa" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 1222. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
4. Kentish, P.M. (23 December 1998). "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places (within the District Council of Cleve)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
5. "Viterra Storage Allocations for Grower Deliveries". Viterra. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
6. Kielpa to Mangalo Hall Railway Act 1916 No. 1265, Government Printer, 24 June 2011, retrieved 30 June 2017
7. "Kielpa-Mangalo Railway Vetoed". Eyre's Peninsula Tribune. Vol. XIV, no. 882. South Australia. 29 August 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 30 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.