Yatala North council covered the undeveloped swamplands within the hundred between the Little Para River and Dry Creek until the establishment of the District Council of Salisbury took over local governance of the hundred east of the Barker Inlet and Dry Creek drain in 1933.

The Corporate Town of Port Adelaide was established in 1855, the first local government body on Lefevre Peninsula.

The Portland Estate council was the first of all the local government bodies on Lefevre Peninsula to amalgamate with the Port Adelaide municipality, which it did in 1884.

In 1890, the municipality of Semaphore was the only remaining local government body on Lefevre Peninsula aside from Port Adelaide.

The non-urbanised portion of the hundred north of the Dry Creek salt pans and west of Port Wakefield Road is still locally governed by the City of Salisbury.