14-666: The Murrumbidgee District was a district (also called a squatting district, pastoral district or grazing district) used in New South Wales in the nineteenth century to refer to the land between the Murrumbidgee River and Murray River , that is now mostly known as the Riverina region . Some maps show the district included the parts of what is now the Australian Capital Territory that
28-448: A 1907 map shows 13 land boards and 103 land districts. The new land districts were different from the previous land districts which had mostly been used in the western areas of the state before counties were proclaimed there. The land boards were named after the location of the head office. The table below shows the land districts used in 1890 and 1907 (some of the locations of the land boards changed and there were new land districts), with
42-558: A population of 1463, with 226,682 sheep, 93,458 cattle, 2315 horses, 2,400 acres (10 km) in cultivation and 172 stations. In 1852 the district included 12 million acres (49,000 km) total, with 400,000 sheep, 100,000 cattle and 3,000 horses Early maps show the eastern boundary of the district being the Murrumbidgee River, while an 1871 map shows the eastern boundary being the Goodradigbee River, with
56-533: Is also legally the only part of the state in the South Australian time zone. A number of water supply authorities are named County Council, but only Rous County Council has the same name as its cadastral county. Genealogy records from the 19th and early 20th centuries for New South Wales commonly use the town name followed by the county. The 1911 Britannica lists all towns in New South Wales
70-589: The Colony of New South Wales , which later became the Australian state of New South Wales . The counties were further subdivided into 7,419 parishes . There are also three land divisions, approximately one hundred land districts and several other district types. Land boards were used at various periods. Thirteen hundreds were briefly proclaimed in Cumberland County . These divisions are part of
84-486: The Crown Lands Acts , while new types of districts called first and second class settled districts, as well as town land and suburban land came into being. The various districts used: The Crown Lands Act of 1884 further divided New South Wales into three land divisions; Western , Central and Eastern ; as well as Land Boards and Land Districts. This 1890 map shows 14 land boards and 95 land districts; while
98-569: The lands administrative divisions of Australia . Unlike the local government areas of New South Wales , which have gone through restructuring periods by the government , the counties have been the same since the 19th century. The first county proclaimed was Cumberland on 4 June 1788. Northumberland was named in 1804. Several other counties were established around Sydney; by the 1820s there were nine counties (see 1828 and 1832 maps). They were: Roxburgh, Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Argyle, Camden, Ayr and Cambridge. They were in
112-662: The Monaro district in the area between the Goodradigbee and the Murrumbidgee. It comprised the area of the counties of Wakool , Townsend , Cadell , Denison , Urana , Hume , Goulburn , Wynyard , Mitchell , Selwyn , Buccleuch and part of Caira and Waradgery . Cadastral divisions of New South Wales For lands administration purposes, New South Wales is divided into 141 counties , which are further divided into parishes. The counties were first set down in
126-663: The approximate area of the present day cadastral units except that some of them were larger and took up land which was in 1834 assigned to other counties. Ayr and Cambridge were not used in the 1834 counties, taking up area which is approximately in what became Macquarie County and Brisbane County . Instructions were given to Governor Brisbane in 1825 to survey New South Wales and divide it into counties of various sizes, hundreds , and parishes between 15 and 25 square miles (40 and 65 km²). The Nineteen Counties were surveyed by Thomas Mitchell in 1834. In Cumberland County only, 13 hundreds were proclaimed, then repealed in 1888. As
140-643: The counties are based on area, rather than population, there are huge differences in the populations of the coastal counties with those for the remote west. The whole of Sydney with several million people is located within Cumberland County, while there are many counties for areas in the Far West which have a very low population. The counties have little official function and are only now used for land titles and geographic surveying, and as an area of coverage within some industrial awards. Yancowinna County
154-473: The land boards and land divisions: Download coordinates as: Brisbane County Download coordinates as: Brisbane County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales . It includes Scone , Merriwa and Murrurundi . The Goulburn River is the boundary to the south and the Hunter River the boundary to
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#1732773112861168-496: The same way, such as Albury, Goulburn county, Broken Hill, Yancowinna county and Wagga-Wagga, Wynyard county. Parts of the land which were outside the Nineteen Counties were divided into squatting districts in the early 19th century [1] . In 1846 New South Wales was divided into settled districts, intermediate districts and unsettled districts. In 1861 the system of settled and unsettled districts were abolished with
182-499: The south-east. The Liverpool Range area is the boundary to the north, and the Krui River the boundary to the west. Brisbane County was named in honour of Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane Governor (1773-1860). The Electoral district of Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh was the first electoral district for the area, between 1856 and 1859. A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to
196-506: Was to the west of the Murrumbidgee River. The district was originally one of the districts used to refer to the area outside the limits of location , but later continued to be used as the name after counties were proclaimed within this area. It went out of use after 1884, when new districts were proclaimed. In 1841 it had a population of 1139, with 180,654 sheep and 62,848 cattle, 1517 horses, with 1,795 acres (7 km) in cultivation and 147 stations, according to an 1841 map. In 1843 it had
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