The Corporate Town of Burra was a local government area in South Australia from 1876 to 1969.
[1] The municipality was proclaimed on 29 June 1876 following the necessary petition of residents in the townships of Aberdeen, Kooringa and Redruth, severing the area from the new District Council of Burra.
[2] It met for the first time on 10 July, and established a council chamber in the Burra Institute.
[1] The municipality used a shaft of the Bon Accord mine as its water supply from 1884 to 1905.
[5] In 1911, the council initiated a public fund for the construction of the historic Market Square Rotunda in honour of King Edward VII.