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Buckleboo is a locality in the Australian state of
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on the
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located about northwest of the state capital of
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and about northwest of the municipal seat of Kimba. Buckleboo began as a government town, surveyed in November 1924 and proclaimed on 17 December 1925 by
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, the
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. It was named after the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Buckleboo. On 27 July 1989, the extent of the government town was reduced by the removal of land north-west of Myrtle Street. Boundaries for the locality were created in 1999, and included the government town of Buckleboo and the former government town of Moongi. In 2013, a parcel of land was removed from the adjoining locality of Pinkawillinie and added to Buckleboo to ensure that the area once covered by the Buckleboo Pastoral Run was within the locality. Until 2005, Buckleboo was the railhead for one branch of the
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, a
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which principally hauled grain via Kimba and
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to
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for export. The silos at the former railway station and the few remaining buildings are surrounded by the Buckleboo Conservation Reserve, proclaimed in 1990. The locality also includes the Moongi Conservation Reserve further along the railway survey, beyond where tracks were never laid. Moongi also had a school and a Methodist Hall which opened in 1932. Buckleboo is home to 'Buckleboo Park' which consists of six tennis courts and an oval for
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and
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. Buckleboo is located in the federal
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, and the state
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. The southern part of the locality is located in the local government area of the District Council of Kimba while the northern part is in the
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.


See also

* Kimba, South Australia#Soils and geomorphology * Kimba, South Australia#Climate


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Manning Collection
{{authority control Towns in South Australia Eyre Peninsula Places in the unincorporated areas of South Australia