Shire of Ballarat [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Shire of Ballarat
The Shire of Ballarat was a local government area immediately to the northwest and west of the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1856 until 1994.
History.
Ballarat was first incorporated as a road district on 7 October 1856, and became a shire on 24 November 1863.
On 6 May 1994, the Shire of Ballarat was abolished, and, along with the City of Ballaarat, the Borough of Sebastopol and parts of the
of the Shire of Bungaree, Shire of Buninyong, Shire of Grenville and Shire of Ripon.
The City is governed and administered by the Ballarat City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ballarat, it also has a service centre located in Buninyong. The City is named after the main urban settlement lying in the centre-south of the LGA, Ballarat, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of almost 94,000.
Council.