| Ucolta South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Ucolta | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°59′48″S 138°57′29″E / 32.99658°S 138.95792°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 13 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5422 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 532 m (1,745 ft)[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Peterborough | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Kimberley[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey[5] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Ucolta is a locality in the Mid North region of South Australia. It was named for a former railway station on the South Australian Railways' 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge railway line between Port Pirie and the New South Wales border.[7] After the line was re-engineered and converted to 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge in 1970, when the infrastructure was demolished, trains did not stop there.[8]
Ucolta is also where the Barrier Highway first meets the railway line, and the Wilmington–Ucolta Road which connects across the northern side of the Mid-North, providing the shortest road route from Western Australia and Eyre Peninsula via Port Augusta to Broken Hill and New South Wales.
The name Ucolta was recorded as an Aboriginal name in 1862, but its meaning has been lost.[3] The former Ucolta Post Office was in the railway station.[9]
- ^ a b c d "Search results for 'Ucolta, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Gazetteer', 'Railways' and 'Roads'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Ucolta (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Placename Details: Ucolta Railway Station". Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. SA0035163. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "District of Stuart Background Profile (2014-2018 boundaries)". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Yongala (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ^ "Placename Details: Ucolta". Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ Fearnside, George H. (1970). All stations west: the story of the Sydney-Perth standard gauge railway. Sydney: Haldan Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 090991804X.
- ^ "Placename Details: Ucolta Post Office". Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. SA0011216. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
