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Horsham pm ɔːr ʃ əm hoːʃəm locally 2 is a regional town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia Located on the river Horsham Wimmera is around 300 km 190 mi northwest of the state capital of Melbourne in June 2015, Horsham had an estimated population of 16451 1 is the most populous city in the Wimmera region, and is the main administrative center of the rural town of Horsham local government area and serves a pool of about 95,000 people citation needed.
Horsham was appointed by the original settler James Monckton Darlot after the town of Horsham in his native England He grew throughout the latter 19th and early 20th century as western wheat center Victoria and wool industry Horsham was declared a city in 1949 and was named Australia's tidiest town in 2001 and in 2015 3.
The first inhabitants of the region were Horsham Australian indigenous tribe Djura Balug who spoke the language jardwadjali 4.
Major Thomas Mitchell was the first European to pass through the area, naming the Wimmera River July 18, 1836.
Squatter James Darlot Monckton was the first European settler, claiming 100,000 acres Dooen August 10, 1842 5 Charles Carter established his Brim property near Springs in 1845 6.
The Post Office opened on 1 July 1848 7 A complex building post offices and the clock tower was erected in 1880.
The main railway station in Melbourne reached Horsham in 1879 and was later extended in Adelaide South Australia, while a western branch line Carpolac started in 1887 and closed in 1988 8 The Borough Council and County Horsham Wimmera operated McKenzie tramway city creek to a stone quarry, some 8 kilometers 5 mi south horse tramway opened in 1885 and ceased operations in 1927 picnic special trains operated from time to time to ferry residents in wagons 9.
Major flooding affected both the settlement in October 1894 and August 1909, the Wimmera up to 3 m 87.
Green Lake, originally intended as an agricultural irrigation reservoir was built in 1933 with capacity for May 35 GL.
On February 24, 1951, a train collided with a bus at a level crossing near Horsham causing 11 deaths 10.
A 1960 Council regulations calling for the removal of buildings verandas had a significant impact on the urban landscape, whose notable loggias demolished Royal 11, and the exchange, the bull and mouth, and The White Hart post office was demolished in 1970 and replaced by a modern office building the bell of the old post office was built in memory.
The rural town of Horsham was formed by the merger of Shires surrounding the January 20th., 1995
2011 floods threatened the CBD This photo shows the water levels at the southern end of Firebrace Street Hamilton Street.
The 2009 Black Saturday bushfires affected Horsham, with a surface 5,700 ha 14,000 acres burned around the fringe of the city, the golf club and eight houses 12 Haven satellite city was the most affected.
He was named the tidiest town in Australia in 2001 and 3 was also named the tidiest town of Victoria and a national finalist in 2009.
Horsham has experienced major flooding in successive years in 2010 and 2011 Victorian floods During these events, the Wimmera reached 3 32 m 71 m and 4 respectively The 2011 event was particularly severe with the Wimmera reaching a record level record, more than a thousand residents were evacuated flood waters divided the town and damaged 600 homes growing up to a meter of water in parts of the CBD 13.
Horsham is situated on the floodplain of the Wimmera River, whose topography is mostly flat The locality is defined by an almost perfect square of 14 km square citation needed bordered by Riley Road Davis Drive north; Cameron Road in the east; Kenny road south; Curran and westward The average altitude is 128 meters 420 feet above sea level River in Horsham is its greater range and form a green belt east-west with several islands along the range the most important being the island sand bank Apex This area is mainly urban, but the wider statistical area includes the agricultural land surrounding the city the river and its tributaries Burnt Creek one and two are the only feature of natural water from the city.
Panorama Green Lake located 10 km southeast Bungalally is one of several lakes in the Horsham District.
Suburban expansion along the River Southbank district roads wetlands.
The urban area extends both north and south of the river, most of which is used for residential and civic purposes predominate in the north and the industry in southern Over 84 of 6,987 Horsham homes are detached, well above the Australian average, and the most recent expansion of the suburbs occurred just south of the river and the northern fringe.
The central area of CBD business is located near the geographical center Firebrace streets forming its backbone north-south and occupies about 21 blocks north of the river between Darlot and Urquhart Street and Western Highway CBD and surrounding areas are arranged in a strict grid plan with wide streets and many roundabouts and traffic lights Horsham lack a prominent skyline, partly because of its flat topography and great sprawling area of about 14 blocks It contains mostly low-rise offices of the state government on McLauchlin Street, five floors, is the tallest building in the roof two main rooms mechanical Service brick roof lend its total floor 6 floors Some architectural details are also important landmarks, including the office building tower TG about seven stories and the arrow of Church of St. Johns about eight floors Horsham City Hall about 4 stories to fly-tower roof with two telecommunications towers located next to the gove rnment offices are the tallest structure in the city.
Horsham Plaza Mall is the main shopping center with 30-35 stores is primarily a shopping center design long inside a food court in the center where it goes in three directions.
Horsham center of the bridge is another shopping center, consisting of about 12 stores Its design most stores entries under a large electric architectural Pagola and a large entrance in the center, entering a foodcourt, several specialty shops a playland and large target.
Horsham has not suburban, but the settlement Haven to 5 kilometers to the south is a satellite town Other locations in the greater Horsham include Bungalally southeast Riverside and is Drung, northwest Dooen and Vectis.
There are several large lakes east and west, with the lakes in East being fresh and the western lakes is mainly salt lakes or small salt marshes green lake season is a artificial lake reservoir built for irrigation, it is now a recreational lake.
Horsham is classified as a semi-arid climate Koppen climate classification BSK similar to Mildura but with less rain and dry for most of the year As such, although his elevation averaged a degree cooler than Mildura, he can receive relatively more temperature extremes.
Climate data for Horsham Aerodrome YHSM since 1997.
In the Parliament of Australia, it is represented in the House of Representatives by the Australian Mallee Division currently held by the national party, it is the most conservative seat 15 countries.
Wesley Performing Arts Center is the main town the place of performing arts located in 1912 Old Wesley Church Horsham Arts Council oversees theater and artistic productions The Regional Art Gallery Horsham is great civic gallery of the city and is located in an old half-timbered brick and masonry room the Horsham performing arts Center was completed in 2015 and opened in February 2016 and includes a main hall with 500 seats with high fly tower 17 meters.
Festivals include the annual Festival of Country Music Horsham, Kannamroo Art festival Festival, Spring Garden Festival, the only festival of arts of the regional handicap Awakenings Australia 16 and the Biennale Nati Frinj festival.
Horsham is the birthplace of the international model and actress Portia de Rossi, however, the star moved to Geelong for his studies.
Sport and fitness are well supported in Horsham There are two well equipped gyms, a large indoor stadium with facilities for netball basketball and other indoor sports there is a water park with a heated pool 25 meters and a gym local sports are very popular way to exercise.
There are two football and netball leagues based around Horsham Wimmera Football League netball and football Horsham District Netball League The city has two Australian rules football teams competing in the Wimmera Football League; Horsham Demons and Saints Horsham Demons have had success in recent years after winning the last 10 Wimmera Football League Premierships Kalkee until 2012 were the largest major final winners of the Horsham District League in football and netball, over the past 50 years and Australian footballer of the year 2014 Adam Goodes grew up in Horsham where he worked in film before being drafted to the Sydney Swans.
Cricket and tennis are the main sports played in Horsham Horsham Cricket Association club based in the Horsham district including Laharum, Noradjuha, Quantong, Natimuk, Rupanyup, Minyip, Murtoa and Dimboola There are a number teams located in Horsham, being Homers, Horsham Saints and Colts Jung Tigers.
There are various volleyball facilities, with a run of weekly domestic competition for fun, and organized training programs in collaboration with high school key Horsham, Horsham College teams College participate in the Cup national schools volleyball every year, and in previous years, have won several gold, silver and bronze in men and women's, Division 2, Division 1 and honors.
The horse racing club Wimmera Racing Club, schedules around five race meetings per year in Horsham, including Horsham Cup meeting on October 17.
Horsham Harness Racing Club conducts regular meetings at its racetrack in the city, 18 and Horsham Greyhound Racing Club holds regular meetings 19.
Golfers play at the course of Horsham Golf Club on Golf Course Road 20.
The Horsham Flying Club 21 is the home of sport aviation and gliding in the Wimmera Mallee region of Victoria Club was formed in 1963 Wimmera Soaring Club and later amalgamated with Aircraft Association Sport Horsham Wimmera hosts the longest competition slip race in Australia, Horsham week 22 held annually in the first week of February since 1967.
Wimmera Health provides health services, including hospital Wimmera former base hospital Horsham on Baillie Street.
The Wimmera hospital is a very large regional hospital especially a great story and 2-3 stories high near the main hospital kitchen and the main hospital in the city of Horsham and the surrounding area with the main center sitting on 70,000 square meters.
Road transport and the motor vehicle is the main form of transport, Western Highway between Melbourne to Adelaide is the largest road network in the city It connects the Henty Highway A200 Portland north towards Mildura cross paths with the Wimmera Highway on the fringes of the central business district Wimmera-B200 Henty Highway is the main road north, connecting to Warracknabeal Horsham and Mildura Sunraysia B220 road and the B240 road Wimmera St Arnaud and the Wimmera continues westward Naracoorte, South Australia.
Horsham Station The Overland train stops on the route from Melbourne to Adelaide.
Rail includes both rail passenger and rail freight station of the city is the Horsham railway station which is on the railway Adelaide Melbourne is located about four blocks 1 km north of the CBD The Overland operates between the capitals of the state and stops in Horsham twice a week in each direction for the passengers, however, there is no direct connection to broad gauge railway network Victorian long interstate freight trains travel regularly across town, and a local container transport service is operated by QRNational for Wimmera container Lines 23 Until July 2008, he was operated by Pacific National, which annulled in April he gave a stay of three months 24 25 .
V Line operates a bus service to and from Horsham various sectors Melbourne passengers on a train in Ararat to continue their journey transport within Horsham is limited to the city bus service operated by Horsham Wimmera Roadways Bus Transit Lines Horsham, consisting of 4 and 6 bus routes, but usually two city buses are active at any given time.
During the holidays a third and sometimes fourth city bus tours are active gifts of the city and its attractions.
Horsham has two taxi companies, although they receive deposit 30 calls Wawunna road, it consists of about 10 vehicles taxi vans Mainly wheelchair accessible breaks or modified, from mid-2014 to mid-late 2015, the company migrated its fleet by adding another 4 vehicles 1 wheelchair accessible.
Water services and waste water are provided by Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water GWMWater The water supply of the city is fully treated drinking water 26 Horsham main water source is Lake Wartook, with a field of bore Laharum to provide an additional power source for the city when the water level 27 is low.
Jannik Blair k team basketball men's national wheelchair current Bizzness Australian Paralympic silver medalist Rollers 2014 World Gold Medalist.
Adam Goodes former Australian Football League player and Australian of the Year who grew up and was educated in Horsham.
Portia de Rossi was born Amanda Rogers, actress, married to Ellen DeGeneres.
Chris Crewther MP Dunkley current members of the Australian Federal Parliament, who grew up and was educated in Horsham and Murtoa.
Thomas Halfpenny first non-native resident of Horsham.
George Langlands first shop owner in Horsham his arrival on July 1, 1849 is considered the starting date of Horsham Township 28.
Pauline Toner 1935-1989, former Victorian woman minister.
Mother Gerda Prytz 1881-1979 - the first student to Genazzano FCJ College became a great educator and FCJ sister who was devoted to his students and a member of the community being assessed.
Patrick Carnegie Simpson 1865-1947 He returned to Scotland with her father, a Presbyterian missionary, a year after the death of his mother Carnegie Simpson became a leading churchman, of Church History professor at Westminster College Cambridge and moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England in 1928.
Victoria Horsham, Horsham, Victoria, Australia tidiest Town, Australia tidiest town in 2001.