[2] In 1888, the town of Bute and surrounding hundred of Wiltunga was annexed by the District Council of Ninnes, bringing local government administration to the township for the first time.

By 1935 a state-of-the-art aerodrome had been laid down immediately north of the town and become headquarters to the North-Western Aero Club.

[8] From the late 1990s a tourist train traversed the by-then-disused railway line from Wallaroo to Bute, but this closed in 2009.

[9] A free-to-view fauna park on the Snowtown Road is maintained by the Bute Lions Club.

Visitors can view emus, peacocks, waterfowl, red kangaroos and other wildlife contained within fenced enclosures.