Hartswater
Sign in to saveHartswater is an agricultural town on the N18 national route some 23 km south of Taung and 36 km north of Warrenton. The centre of the Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme, it became a municipality in April 1960. It takes its name from the Harts River which passes to the west of the town.
Key facts
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- Main Place
- Settlement.name
- Hartswater
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- South Africa Northern Cape#South Africa
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- Country
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- South Africa
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- Province
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- Northern Cape
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- District
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- Frances Baard
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- Municipality
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- Phokwane
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- Established
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- Councillor
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- 10.77
- Settlement.population_total
- 10465
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- 2011
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- auto
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- Racial makeup (2011)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Phokwane Local Municipality
- Capital of
- Phokwane Local Municipality
- Dialing code
- 053
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- inception
- 1934-01-01
- postal code
- 8570
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hartswater is an agricultural town on the N18 national route some 23 km south of Taung and 36 km north of Warrenton. The centre of the Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme, it became a municipality in April 1960. It takes its name from the Harts River which passes to the west of the town.
==Background== The town was laid out in 1948. There is a monument built in the shape of a miniature church dedicated to the women of Vaalharts for their contribution towards building and developing the Vaalharts irrigation scheme located in the town of Hartswater.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hartswater” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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