Regional Council of Goyder: History
The Regional Council of Goyder was created in 1997, when four municipalities in the region were amalgamated: the District Council of Burra Burra, the District Council of Eudunda, the District Council of Hallett and the District Council of Robertstown. Mining features prominently in the region's history, particularly the mining of copper.
Goyder is named after former Surveyor General George Goyder who mapped Goyder's Line of rainfall in South Australia in 1865. This map is still of great relevance to local cereal cropping as the line dissects the council area. It is also of great cultural importance to the whole upper Mid North region of South Australia, with the 150th anniversary of Goyder's Line being celebrated in Orroroo, just north of the Goyder council area, in November 2015.