The Shire of Lake Grace is a Local Government Area

Local Government Areas of Western Australia

The Australian state of Western Australia is divided into 141 local government areas...

 in the Eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia

Western Australia

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, about 350 kilometres (217 mi) ESE of the state capital, Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

. The Shire has a land area of 10379 square kilometres (4,007 sq mi) and its seat of government is the town of Lake Grace

Lake Grace, Western Australia

-Natural disasters:In late 2005 and early 2006, Lake Grace experienced two natural disasters. The first was a hail storm on 16 October 2005, which destroyed 500 hectares of wheat and barley crop and damaged a further 5,500 hectares, with some farmers reporting fields covered by up to...

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History

In 1922, the Lake Grace Road Board was gazetted. On 1 July 1961, it became the Shire Council following changes to the Local Government Act.

Wards

The shire has been divided into 3 wards.

• Lake Grace Ward (4 councillors)
• Newdegate Ward (3 councillors)
• Lake King/Varley Ward (2 councillors)

Towns and localities

• Lake Grace
  Lake Grace, Western Australia
  -Natural disasters:In late 2005 and early 2006, Lake Grace experienced two natural disasters. The first was a hail storm on 16 October 2005, which destroyed 500 hectares of wheat and barley crop and damaged a further 5,500 hectares, with some farmers reporting fields covered by up to...
  
  
• Beenong
• Buniche
• Lake Biddy
• Lake Camm
• Lake King
  Lake King, Western Australia
  Lake King is a town located in the Eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, from Perth along State Route 107 between Wagin and Ravensthorpe....
  
  
• Newdegate
  Newdegate, Western Australia
  Newdegate is a townsite in the great southern agricultural region, 399 km south-east of Perth and 52 km east of Lake Grace in Western Australia. The townsite was gazetted in 1925 and honours Sir Francis Newdegate, the Governor of Western Australia from 1920 to 1924...
  
  
• Pingaring
  Pingaring, Western Australia
  Pingaring is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.The name of the town is the Indigenous Australian name of a nearby spring that was first recorded by surveyors in 1926....
  
  
• Varley
  Varley, Western Australia
  Varley is a small town located between Hyden and Lake King in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.The area surrounding the town was opened for agricultural purposes in the 1930s and by 1938 the local progress association began campaigning to have the townsite gazetted. The move was approved...
  
  

External links

• Shire of Lake Grace