| Shire of Beverley Western Australia |
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Location in Western Australia |
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| Population: | 1,562 (2006 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1871 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 2372. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Year 1871 ( MDCCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 2 km² (915. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Mayor: | J D Alexander | ||||||||||||
| Council Seat: | Beverley | ||||||||||||
| Region: | Wheatbelt | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Avon | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Pearce | ||||||||||||
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The Shire of Beverley is a Local Government Area located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, and is about 130 kilometres (80 mi) southeast of Perth, the state capital. The Australian state of Western Australia is divided into 142 Local Government Areas (including Christmas Island and the The Wheatbelt region is one of the nine Regions of Western Australia. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. The Shire covers an area of 2,372 square kilometres (916 sq mi), starting 20 kilometres (12 mi) outside Armadale in the Darling Scarp and extending eastwards beyond the scarp into agricultural lands which support broad acre activities such as livestock and cropping. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Armadale is a suburb within the City of Armadale, located on the southeastern edge of Perth's metropolitan area The Darling Scarp (previously known as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges) is a low Escarpment running north-south to the east of the Its seat of government is the town of Beverley, which accommodates just over half of the Shire's population. Beverley is a town located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, south-east of the state capital Perth, between York and
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In 1871, the Beverley Road Board (later Shire Council) was created to manage a territory with immense boundaries, taking in land all the way east to Eucla on the South Australian border. Eucla is the easternmost locality in Western Australia, located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia along the Eyre Highway South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country Its scope was so broad that from 1892 to 1913, the town of Beverley had its own municipal council operating separately from the Road Board. However, over the years, each of the major towns developed their own road board, and by 1923 the present boundaries were established. In 1961, the Road Board was renamed to the Beverley Shire Council. [1]
The shire has been divided into 3 wards.