Map of District of Snowtown boundaries within the state's Mid North as at 1909
The council was headquartered at the new government town of Snowtown and six inaugural councillors were appointed by proclamation on 19 January 1888: Joseph Turner, William Henry Hall, David Edward Paterson, Joseph Harris, Daniel Painter, and John Shepherd, junior.[2]
District Council of Ninnes (established 1885 and renamed District Council of Bute in 1933) lay immediately west.
References
^"The District Councils Act 1887 No. 419". Flinders University. p. 90. Retrieved 28 June 2017. DISTRICT OF SNOWTOWN.—Comprising the Hundreds of Barunga and Boucaut.
^"Proclamations—Snowtown, District—Boundaries enlarged"(PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. 1889 (44 ed.). Government of South Australia: 1351. 26 September 1889. Retrieved 26 June 2017. [...] the whole of the hundred of Everard heretofore forming the North Everard ward and the South Everard ward of the district of Blyth shall be severed from the said district of Blyth and annexed to the district of Snowtown [...]