Two Wells South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°35′46″S 138°30′57″E / 34.596206°S 138.515919°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
Population | 2,947 (UCL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5501 | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 9 m (30 ft) | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
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LGA(s) | Adelaide Plains Council[1] | ||||||||||||||
Region | Barossa Light and Lower North[1] | ||||||||||||||
County | Gawler[1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Taylor[3] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey[4] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Adjoining localities[1] |
Two Wells is a town approximately 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the Adelaide city centre in South Australia adjacent to Port Wakefield Road and passed by the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line. The first settlers in the area used two aboriginal wells in the area as a freshwater source.[6] At the 2016 census, Two Wells had a population of 1926.[7]