Korumburra Shire

Korumburra Shire (1922-94), west Gippsland, was in hilly country south of the Princes Highway. Its administrative centre, Korumburra, is on the South Gippsland Highway, 110 km south-east of Melbourne.

Korumburra shire began as the Poowong and Jeetho shire on 29 May 1891 (see separate entry), and adopted the name of its main town on 25 October 1922. The shire offices had been at Korumburra since 1908.