Mildura Shire

Mildura Shire (1890-1995) was created on 10 January 1890, three years after the Chaffey brothers began the Mildura irrigation colony near the Murray River in the Mallee region of north-west Victoria. It was formed by severance from Swan Hill shire and occupied 11,836 sq km. Walpeup shire was severed from it in 1911, and urban Mildura was made a separate borough – and subsequently a town and a city – on 18 May 1920.