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4.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Australia Victoria Rural City of Horsham. 4 languages.
The Rural City of Horsham is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of 4,267 square kilometres (1,647 sq mi) and in June 2018, had a population of 19,875. [1] It includes the towns of Brimpaen, Dadswells Bridge, Dooen, Haven, Horsham, Laharum, Natimuk, Noradjuha and Pimpinio.
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The area was inhabited by its Indigenous residents (and continues to be) when it was surveyed by the first European to do so Thomas Mitchell in the mid-1830s, and he is credited with naming the Grampians after a mountain range in his native Scotland, [10] and naming the region as Wimmera, adapting a word from the local indigenous language meaning 'throwing stick'.
The City of Horsham was a local government area about 290 kilometres (180 mi) west-northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The municipality covered an area of 23.31 square kilometres (9.0 sq mi), and was established in 1882.
By 1910 Horsham sat on the boundary between Victoria's primary wool-producing area, the south-west and the state's second-largest wheat-producing area the Wimmera. [93] Wheat is one of Australia's largest agricultural exports [94] with the Wimmera and Mallee regions producing between 10 and 40 tonnes of wheat per square kilometre. [95]
The town is in the Shire of Yarriambiack local government area. At the 2016 census, Murtoa had a population of 865 [1] and is located around 30 kilometres from Horsham, a major city in the Wimmera region. The name Murtoa is believed to come from a local Aboriginal word meaning "home of the lizard". Murtoa's post office opened on 1 August 1874. [2]
This is a list of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the Rural City of Horsham in Victoria, Australia. The Victorian Heritage Register is maintained by the Heritage Council of Victoria. The Victorian Heritage Register, as of 2020, lists the following seven state-registered places within the Rural City of Horsham: [1]