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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox Australian place | type = town
| name = Kilmore East
| state = vic
| image = KilmoreEastHotel.JPG
| caption = The former Kilmore East Hotel, opposite the train station
| coordinates = {{coord|37|18|S|144|59|E|display=inline,title}}
| use_lga_map = yes
| pushpin_label_position = right
| lga = Shire of Mitchell
| postcode = 3764<ref>{{cite web|title=Location:Kilmore East Victoria|work=Postcode Search|publisher=Australia Post |url=http://www1.auspost.com.au/postcodes/index.asp?Locality=Kilmore+east&sub=1&State=&Postcode=&submit1=Search|accessdate =2009-02-15}}</ref>
| est =
| pop = 417
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}
| pop_footnotes = <ref name="ABS2016">{{cite web |title=2016 Census QuickStats Kilmore East |url=http://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC21345 |website=Australian Bureau of Statistics |accessdate=2 February 2019}}</ref>
| elevation=
| maxtemp =
| mintemp =
| rainfall =
| stategov = [[Electoral district of Euroa|Euroa]]
| fedgov = [[Division of Nicholls|Nicholls]]
| dist1 = 65
| location1= [[Melbourne]]
| dist2 = 4
| location2= [[Kilmore, Victoria|Kilmore]]
| near-nw = [[Moranding, Victoria|Moranding]]
| near-n = [[Broadford, Victoria|Broadford]]
| near-ne = [[Sunday Creek, Victoria|Sunday Creek]]
| near-w = [[Kilmore, Victoria|Kilmore]]
| near-e = [[Clonbinane, Victoria|Clonbinane]]
| near-sw = [[Kilmore, Victoria|Kilmore]]
| near-s = [[Kilmore, Victoria|Kilmore]]
| near-se = [[Clonbinane, Victoria|Clonbinane]]
}}

'''Kilmore East''' is a locality in the [[Australia]]n state of [[Victoria, Australia|Victoria]], 65 kilometres north of [[Melbourne]]. At the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Kilmore East had a population of 417.<ref name=ABS2016/>

Kilmore East was settled by John Green, a neighboring pastoralist on the Kilmore Plains. He was a squatter, and William Rutledge purchased the best area occupied by Green in 1841. Green's head station was built 400 metres SSE of what became the Kilmore East Railway Station.<ref>Williams, Martin, Charles Bonney and the fertile Kilmore Plains, Victorian Historical Journal, Volume 90, No. 1, June 2019, p. 114</ref>

[[Kilmore East railway station|Kilmore East railway and telegraph station]] was established in 1872 to serve Kilmore.<ref name=Waugh>{{cite web|title=Kilmore East |work=Victorian Signalling Histories No 46, Version 1.0 (July 2002)|author= Waugh, Andrew|url=http://www.vrhistory.com/Locations/KilmoreEast.pdf|accessdate=2009-02-14}}</ref>

The Post Office at Kilmore East opened on 1 September 1872 as Gavan Duffy, named after
[[Charles Gavan Duffy (Australian politician)|Sir Charles Gavan Duffy]] the [[Premier of Victoria]] until June of that
year. It was renamed Kilmore East two months later and closed in 1976. Gavan Street and Duffy
Street are reminders of the original township name.<ref name = "postoffice">{{Cite web | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Kilmore*East* | access-date = 8 April 2021 }}</ref>

In 1976, a [[bluestone]] quarry was developed 3 km to the north of the station.<ref name=Waugh/>

A hilltop above Saunders Road was identified as the starting point of [[Black Saturday bushfires|a major bushfire on 7 February 2009]] that devastated many localities to the south-east including [[Wandong, Victoria|Wandong]] and [[Kinglake, Victoria|Kinglake]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Hill paddock is pinpointed as area where fire started|date=12 February 2009|url=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25043261-662,00.html|work=Herald Sun|accessdate=2009-02-15}} {{Dead link|date=August 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref> An investigation put some of the blame on a [[recloser]] that tried to restore power to a "dangling" power line.<ref>{{cite news| page=A10 | title=Power-line restart device scrutinized |date=2 November 2017 | newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Black Saturday bushfires]]
*[[Recloser]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Towns in Mitchell Shire}}

{{authority control}}

[[Category:Towns in Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Shire of Mitchell]]

Kilmore East, Victoria - Revision history

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