Haven, Victoria
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Haven is a town in the Wimmera
region of Victoria
, Australia
about 5km from of Horsham
. At the 2006 census
, it had a population of 943.
Haven has a general store
, a recreation reserve and a small primary school with approximately 25-30 students. The town has a monthly market. Haven Post Office opened on 1 December 1911 and closed in 1985.
During the Black Saturday bushfires in February 2009, a fire enveloping the outskirts of Horsham
threatened Haven; firefighters managed to save the general store, hall and school, despite flames coming within metres of those buildings.
Wimmera
The Wimmera is a region in the west of the Australian state of Victoria.It covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Australia border and north of the Great Dividing Range...
region of Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
about 5km from of Horsham
Horsham, Victoria
Horsham is the largest city by population and regional centre of the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia and is approximately north-west of Melbourne via the Western Highway. At the 2006 census, Horsham had a population of 14,125. Horsham is in the federal Division of Mallee...
. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia
The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...
, it had a population of 943.
Haven has a general store
General store
A general store, general merchandise store, or village shop is a rural or small town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, sometimes in a small space, where people from the town and surrounding rural areas come to purchase all their general...
, a recreation reserve and a small primary school with approximately 25-30 students. The town has a monthly market. Haven Post Office opened on 1 December 1911 and closed in 1985.
During the Black Saturday bushfires in February 2009, a fire enveloping the outskirts of Horsham
Horsham, Victoria
Horsham is the largest city by population and regional centre of the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia and is approximately north-west of Melbourne via the Western Highway. At the 2006 census, Horsham had a population of 14,125. Horsham is in the federal Division of Mallee...
threatened Haven; firefighters managed to save the general store, hall and school, despite flames coming within metres of those buildings.