Lands administrative divisions of South Australia

The hundreds of South Australia formed the basis for the establishment boundaries of most of the earliest local government bodies (that is, district councils).

In the case of sparsely populated rural lands, adjacent hundreds were represented by a single district council.

In the early days of European settlement in South Australia, land was released in the colony for farming in an orderly manner by the government.

[4] From this time, the government surveyor systematically established new areas to be released by creating the boundaries of a county, and then dividing that into hundreds of approximately the same size.

Contemporary definitions of rural real estate in South Australia still typically includes the section number(s) and hundred name.

The 37 counties of South Australia in 1886; 12 more were later proclaimed
The 45 counties of South Australia in 1893; 4 more would later be proclaimed