Fischer

Demographic figures from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Fischer is a locality in the lower Mid North of South Australia between Gawler and Mallala. Its boundaries were set in 1997 to conform to the long-established local usage of the name. Like many places in South Australia, the name draws from the early settlers that migrated from Prussia (Germany) in the middle of the 19th century to take up land grants in the then new British colony of South Australia. Britain and Prussia were at that time staunch allies, having combined to defeat the French armies of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. That era resulted in much of the British Royal family and the colony of South Australia being descendant from Prussian stock. The Fischer family settled the area after arrival on one of the early colonial ships. By the 20th century, the Fischer family was farming much of the area. In the 1970s or 1980s the SA Government released a plan for the area to feature a new satellite city, to relieve the pressure on the expanding capital Adelaide, to the south. The family farm of J H (Gordon) Fischer was subdivided and sold in smaller hobby farm allotments. A number of the original farm structures remain.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Nearby places in South Australia

• Redbanks
  3.8 mi away · pop. 106
• Templers
  7.2 mi away
• Roseworthy
  7.4 mi away · pop. 987
• Hamley Bridge
  10.2 mi away · pop. 615
• Shea-Oak Log
  10.9 mi away
• Rosedale
  12.5 mi away
• Stockport
  12.8 mi away · pop. 198
• Middle Beach
  14.3 mi away
• One Tree Hill
  17.3 mi away · pop. 543
• Greenock
  17.6 mi away · pop. 1,045
• St Kilda
  17.6 mi away · pop. 77
• Windsor
  17.6 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Fischer

Race, colour, and identity in Australia and New Zealand

John Docker · 2000

The random sampling of votes in the Australian Senate

A. J. Fischer · 1978

GJ Rechner and his descendants

Judy Gale Rechner · 2008

The enemy at home

Nadine Helmi · 2011

Picasso

Pablo Picasso · 1926

The Secret Woman

Eleanor Burford · 1970

Summertime

J. M. Coetzee · 2009

Fred Williams

Williams, Fred · 1979

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Brown Falcon

Falco berigora

Seen 2026-07-14

Australian Boobook

Ninox boobook

Seen 2026-07-11

Southern Cinnabar Polypore

Trametes coccinea

Seen 2026-07-09

Gum Bracket

Fomitopsis lilacinogilva

Seen 2026-07-09

Sea Box

Alyxia buxifolia

Seen 2026-07-07

Monarch

Danaus plexippus

Seen 2026-06-21

Native apricot

Pittosporum angustifolium

Seen 2026-06-06

Redlegged Earth Mite

Halotydeus destructor

Seen 2026-06-06

Silvergreen Bryum Moss

Bryum lanatum

Seen 2026-06-06

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers