Yackandandah Shire

Yackandandah Shire (1864-1994) an area of 1149 sq km was in north-east Victoria, immediately south of Wodonga rural city and east of Beechworth shire. Its main centres of population and rural industry were along Yackandandah Creek in the north of the shire (Yackandandah, Osbornes Flat and Allans Flat, all former gold mining towns) and along the Kiewa Valley. The valley was the spine of the shire’s dairying and beef industries, and it contains the towns of Dederang, Kiewa and Tangambalanga.