Named for an Aboriginal word, Kula, meaning eucalyptus, Kulpara is located on the Copper Coast Highway between
Port Wakefield and
Paskeville. Kulpara is a rural town in the Hummocks Range at the northern end of
Yorke Peninsula.The "Hundred of Kulpara" comprising the land now occupied by Kulpara, Melton, and
Paskeville was proclaimed on 12 June 1862 and surveyed in 1864 with
European settlement beginning the following year. Kulpara township was surveyed in 1932 and proclaimed in 1934.A fossil genus of stromatolite-forming cyanobacteria, Kulparia, was discovered near and named after this town.