The District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula traces its history back to 1880 when a district council was first created for the
Port Lincoln area. The
District Council of Lincoln was established in on 1 July 1880. Its boundaries were exactly those of the
Hundred of Lincoln and included
Boston and
Grantham islands. which saw the boundaries of the district extended to cover the entire
County of Flinders (southern Eyre Peninsula up to a line north of
Cummins) in January 1888. The boundaries were extended again in 1890 when it gained the hundreds of
Kiana,
Mitchell and
Shannon to the north in the
County of Musgrave. In 1906, the north east of the district was removed to form the new
District Council of Tumby Bay and, in 1921, Port Lincoln itself was severed to create the
Corporate Town of Port Lincoln. The district regained an area from the Corporate Town in 1935 and, in 1936, the District Council of Lincoln controlled thirteen hundreds, amounting to approximately 1,300,000 acres; its population in that year was estimated at 1,486. The district boundaries underwent further alterations in 1981 and 1982. In 1988, it assumed its current name when the District Council of Lincoln was renamed the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula. ==Economy==