Prospect is a suburb to the north of the centre of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.Surrounding suburbs include Kilburn, Fitzroy, and Medindie. The suburb has boundaries of Main North Road to the East; Carter Street, Audley Avenue and Avenue Road to the South; The Gawler railway line on the west and a line 400m north of Regency Road (Livingstone Avenue, Angwin Avenue and Henrietta Street) on the north.HistoryThe City of Prospect was named as such because it area was seen as a "beautiful prospect" by the gazetteer in 1838. In 1944 the city council voted to adopt the same name for the suburb of Prospect.The first Prospect Post Office opened around 1861 and closed around 1872. A Nailsworth office (open from 1861) was renamed Prospect in 1874 and has remained open since then. It was located at First avenue, Nailsworth, with two tall palm trees planted in front of the post office to enhance visibility from a distance.In the 1940s the area now known as Prospect was separated into seven localities. West of Prospect Road north to south were Prospect Estate, Highbury and Dudley Park (the west portion of the latter remaining separate today). East of Prospect Road from north to south were Blair Athol (the name today for the old suburbs of Enfield Gardens and Bosworth Park, north of Prospect), Prospect Park, Prospect Hill, St Johns Wood and the old suburb of Prospect itself