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KINTORE Western Australia
AKA - The Cement

Latitude 30° 36' S Longitude 121° 01' E

Kintore is an abandoned town in Western Australia located 46 kilometres (29 miles) north-west of Kalgoorlie along the Coolgardie North Road in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia and seven miles north-west of Kunanalling.

Kintore - map by Bonzel

Gold was discovered in the area in December 1894 by prospectors Leith and Barrett.The first mine was named after Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, the retiring Governor of South Australia who was visiting Western Australia at the time. Following a rapid growth in population the local progress committee petitioned for the town to be declared and the town was gazetted in 1897.

Gold was discovered here in the late 1890s, and in 1897 the Kintore Progress Committee sought the declaration of a townsite for their rapidly growing community. The townsite was gazetted later the same year. 

There was only one marriage celebrated in the town, that of: John MESSER to Susan KIRKHAM in 1899.

Kintore Street Map - Image SLWA