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Yorketown
South Australiatown
Yorketown
Total population
667
Demographic figures from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Yorketown is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the southern Yorke Peninsula about 91 kilometres (57 mi) west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of the municipal seat of Maitland.
Read more on WikipediaHistory & geography
History
Yorketown began as a private sub-division in section 85 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Melville in 1872. Boundaries were created for the locality which was given the "long established name" of Yorketown on 27 May 1999. The area associated with Yorketown is known as Garrdinya by the Narungga, the aboriginal people of the Yorke Peninsula.
Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).
Air quality
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Most-observed species
- Silver GullChroicocephalus novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) · Aves214
- Singing HoneyeaterGavicalis virescens (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves190
- Pacific GullLarus pacificus Latham, 1801 · Aves182
- Willie-wagtailRhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves169
- House SparrowPasser domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves146
- Red WattlebirdAnthochaera carunculata (Shaw, 1790) · Aves141
- White-faced HeronEgretta novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) · Aves137
- Pied CormorantPhalacrocorax varius (Gmelin, 1789) · Aves130
Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Earthquake history
Most recent
- M 3.3 — 2011-10-183 km ESE of Hawthorndene, Australia
- M 2.8 — 2007-07-0826 km SW of Normanville, Australia
- M 2.9 — 2004-11-2518 km W of Kingscote, Australia
- M 2.7 — 2003-09-2211 km SSE of Normanville, Australia
Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).
Photos
Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in South Australia
- Wool Bay8.6 mi away · pop. 106
- Edithburgh9.1 mi away · pop. 497
- Stansbury12.9 mi away · pop. 480
- Minlaton17.1 mi away · pop. 759
- Port Vincent22.1 mi away · pop. 494
- Curramulka23.1 mi away · pop. 156
- Marion Bay38.3 mi away · pop. 160
- Emu Bay39.9 mi away · pop. 93
- James Well40.3 mi away · pop. 54
- Ardrossan44.7 mi away · pop. 1,188
- Rapid Bay48.2 mi away · pop. 16
- Second Valley48.7 mi away · pop. 118
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
Nearby airports
Public attention
Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.
Books about this place
Recent natural events nearby
Ground air-quality sensors
Recently spotted species
Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).
Events
Gallery
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Open-Meteo (ERA5 reanalysis)
- • Wikidata
- • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
- • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API