Cummins, South Australia

Cummins South Australia
Cummins
Coordinates
Population	705 (2006 census)
Postcode(s)	5631
Location	638 km (396 mi) W of Adelaide 63 km (39 mi) N of Port Lincoln 40 km (25 mi) W of Tumby Bay
LGA(s)	District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula
State electorate(s)	Flinders
Federal Division(s)	Grey

Cummins is a town on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, 67 km north of Port Lincoln and 68 m above sea level. At the 2006 census, the town had a population of 705.

Cummins was named after William Patrick Cummins, a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1896 to 1907. Cummins was surveyed in 1902 a few years after the first settlers in the area arrived. The railway to Port Lincoln arrived in 1907.

The major industries are sheep and grain growing. There is a narrow gauge railway line to the deep-water port at Port Lincoln for exporting grain.

Cummins is the headquarters of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula. It is in the state electoral district of Flinders and the federal Division of Grey.

The town has a bowls club with 3 greens which competes in the Southern Eyre Peninsula Mens Bowling Association.

Cummins is the birth place of former Australian tennis player John Fitzgerald who in a career spanning 1980-1997 won seven Grand Slam Doubles titles at all four major events (Australian Open (1982), French Open (1986, 1991), Wimbledon (1989, 1991), and the US Open (1984, 1991)) as well as the mixed doubles at the US Open in 1983 and Wimbledon in 1991. Fitzgerald was also a member of Australia's Davis Cup winning teams in 1983 and 1986. He would later go on to be Australia's Davis Cup captain from 2001-2010. Fitzgerald, known as the "Cockaleechie Kid", was ranked the #1 doubles player in the world in 1991 and had also represented Australia in both singles and doubles (with fellow South Australian Darren Cahill) at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.