| Shire of Narrogin Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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.jpg) Thestate heritage listed Narrogin Town Hall, 2018 | |||||||||||||||
_LGA_WA.png) Location inWestern Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 4,779 (LGA2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1892 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 1,618.8 km2 (625.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Shire president | Leigh Ballard | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Narrogin | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Wheatbelt | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Roe | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | O'Connor | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | Shire of Narrogin | ||||||||||||||
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TheShire of Narrogin is alocal government area in theWheatbelt region ofWestern Australia, about 190 kilometres (118 mi) south-east of the state capital,Perth. The seat of government is in the town ofNarrogin. Until 2016, when the two entities merged, the Narrogin townsite was governed by a separate local government area, theTown of Narrogin.
On 19 May 1892, the Narrogin Road District came into being. On 1 July 1961, it became a Shire under theLocal Government Act 1960.[2] In 1999 and 2004, proposals to merge the Shire with theTown of Narrogin were defeated atreferendum.[3] In 2016, on July 1, the Shire of Narrogin amalgamated with the Town of Narrogin. The new entity retained the designation of Shire.
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Both the Shire and the Town of Narrogin had wards, but they have since been abolished. Nine elected members now sit at large.
The towns and localities of the Shire of Narrogi with population and size figures based on themost recentAustralian census:[4][5]
| Locality | Population | Area | Map |
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| Boundain | 53 (SAL2021)[6] | 214.6 km2 (82.9 sq mi) |  |
| Dumberning | 193 (SAL2021)[7] | 132.2 km2 (51.0 sq mi) |  |
| Highbury | 247 (SAL2021)[8] | 542.4 km2 (209.4 sq mi) |  |
| Hillside | 72 (SAL2021)[9] | 41.6 km2 (16.1 sq mi) |  |
| Minigin | 78 (SAL2021)[10] | 222.3 km2 (85.8 sq mi) |  |
| Narrogin | 3,927 (SAL2021)[11] | 13.1 km2 (5.1 sq mi) |  |
| Narrogin Valley | 102 (SAL2021)[12] | 100.3 km2 (38.7 sq mi) |  |
| Nomans Lake | 59 (SAL2021)[13] | 177.8 km2 (68.6 sq mi) |  |
| Yilliminning | 47 (SAL2021)[14] | 186.8 km2 (72.1 sq mi) |  |
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As of 2023, 188 places are heritage-listed in the Shire of Narrogin,[15] of which 23 are on theState Register of Heritage Places.[16]
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