Shepparton Shire

Shepparton Shire (1879-1994), an area of 924 sq km, was east of Shepparton City and the Goulburn River in northern Victoria.

In its first form, the shire was a vast area severed from the even more vast Echuca Shire in 1879. As closer settlement and local irrigation schemes came into being, the first Shepparton shire was subdivided as follows. The creation of these shires went side by side with the creation of water and irrigation trusts: