Hansborough is a locality along the Thiele Highway, in South Australia's Mid North region.

A town was surveyed in July 1865 and named after Frederick Hansborough Dutton (1812–1890), an early pastoralist and an overlander, who founded Anlaby Station, near Kapunda.

[6][1] Boundaries were created for the part of the locality within the Light Regional Council on 16 March 2000 and for the part within the Regional Council of Goyder which includes the ceased Government Town of Hansborough on 24 August 2000.

Passenger services ceased in 1968 and the line was formally closed in 1994.

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