Mundaring, Western Australia

The Shire of Mundaring is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 643.32 square kilometers in metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and its boundary lies about 18 km from Perth. The aboriginal name of the area 'Mindah-lung', said to mean 'a high place on a high place', was anglicized to become 'Mundaring'. History of Mundaring www.heritageaustralia.com.au (accessed 01 April, 2006)

Mundaring Shire has published the following statistics for the period 1994-2000 Population & Area www.mundaring.wa.gov.au (accessed 01 April, 2006):

Population: 35,117 (300% increase from 1966 (8,925) to 2006)
Area: 643.32 km²
Rateable properties: 13,600
Revenue: dollar|A$" target="_blank" >^*17.4M

Mundaring is also a suburb/town within this municipality (see below for townsite details). Also many make the association of the name with the dam south of the locality - Mundaring Weir.

Land tenure

Of the 643.32 km² of land (In 1999): -

Rateable area 205.91 km²

Non-rateable area 74.81 km²

Vested reserves 104.60 km²

Forests and national Parks 238.30 km²

Suburbs/towns

At the 1996 ABS Census, Bailup, Gorrie and Malmalling were not identified as they were not created until 1999. Beechina and The Lakes consitituted the same locality, and Midvale was a locality, while Mundaring Weir was not listed as a separate locality.

Mundaring townsite

Is located 32 km east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway, with most of the shopping centre on the northern side of the highway, and most services on the south side. Most of the local bank branches have been reduced to ATMs and a number of agencies remain.

The locality no longer has a petrol station, but the evidence of two closed stations remain. The nearest west is at Mahogony Creek, or east at Sawyers Valley.

History

The shire has been well served by history books, and has a very active historical society.

The first major shire produced history, was the Ian Elliots 'Mundaring - A history of the Shire' which was published in 1983, and was reprinted in 1998. The format of the book covered the whole shire, area by area.

The second shire volume coincided with the centenary of the shire in 2003. Ken Spillman was the researcher and author, and it was titled 'Life was meant to be here: community and local government in the Shire of Mundaring'.

The Mundaring and Hills Historical Society has shire patronage and funding, and has been effective in attracting interest and cultivating research and collection of materials that relate to the considerable history of the shire.

References

External links

Shire of Mundaring Website