Willalooka, South Australia facts for kids

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Willalooka Location in South Australia
Population	143 (2016 census)
Established	16 March 2000
Postcode(s)	5267
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	255 km (158 mi) southeast of Adelaide 34 km (21 mi) south of Keith 75 km (47 mi) north of Naracoorte
LGA(s)	Tatiara District Council
Region	Limestone Coast
County	Buckingham
State electorate(s)	MacKillop
Federal Division(s)	Barker
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 22.9 °C 73 °F 8.0 °C 46 °F 414.9 mm 16.3 in
Localities around Willalooka: Laffer Keith Brimbago Petherick Willalooka Carew Kongal Swede Flat Marcollat Marcollat Swede Flat
Footnotes	Adjoining localities

Willalooka is a small service town and locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. it is located on the Riddoch Highway between Keith and Padthaway. Christmas Rocks Conservation Park is north of the town adjacent to the highway.

Services in the town include the Country Fire Service, a community hall, tavern, fuel and general store. The dominant industry in the area is farming, especially sheep.

Near Willalooka is the Darwent Waterhole, called by the local Aborigines kongal, meaning 'water mallee'.

Joseph Darwent, an American steamship owner who took up several pastoral properties near Willalooka in the 1870s. Not to be confused with Joseph Darwent (c. 1824 – 20 October 1872), an English accountant, secretary of the Adelaide City and Port Railway Company, then partner in Darwent & Dalwood who contracted for the northernmost section of the Overland Telegraph Line. Nor his nephew, Joseph Darwent, jun. (1847 – 10 August 1926), from Sheffield, who had a property near Coonawarra and lived in Penola, where he was a member of the District Council for 35 years and Chairman for 25.

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Willalooka had a population of 143 people.

Willalooka is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council.

Hundred of Willalooka

The bounded locality of Willalooka corresponds precisely in land area to the cadastral Hundred of Willalooka in the County of Buckingham. The hundred was named in 1921 after the earlier pastoral property in the area. Its surveyed area is a rectangle of 147 square miles (380 km²).