 Most of the Western and Central parts of Australia were never divided into counties; ██ No counties ██ Has been subdivided into counties Cadastral divisions of Australia refers to the parts of Australia which are divided into the cadastral units of counties, parishes, hundreds, and other divisions for the purposes of land ownership. Most property titles in Australia are listed as being in the parish and county. The whole of the eastern states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania were divided into counties in the nineteenth century. Parts of South Australia (south-east) and Western Australia (south-west) were similarly divided, and there were also five counties in a small part of the Northern Territory. There are a total of 597 counties in Australia, but there are no counties for most of the sparsely inhabited central and western parts of the country. Counties in Australia have no administrative or political function, unlike those in England and the United States. Australia instead uses Local Government Areas, including shires, boroughs and municipalities according to the state, as the second level subdivision. Cadastral is a term used in surveying and public administration, and refers to the division of land into units for surveying, taxation or administrative purposes. ...
Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though the original earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office. ...
A parish is a subdivision of a diocese or bishopric within the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Church of Sweden, and of some other churches. ...
A hundred is a geographic division used in England, Scandinavia, and some parts of the USA, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative units. ...
Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Peter Beattie (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 28 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $158,506 (3rd) - Product per capita $40,170/person (6th) Population (June Quarter Released Statistics 2006) - Population 4,053,444 (3rd) - Density 2. ...
Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ...
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Capital Hobart Government Const. ...
Capital Adelaide Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Premier Mike Rann (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 11 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $59,819 (5th) - Product per capita $38,838/person (7th) Population (End of March 2005) - Population 1,540,200 (5th) - Density 1. ...
Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 15 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $100,900 (4th) - Product per capita $50,355/person (3rd) Population (December 2006) - Population 2,050,900 (4th) - Density 0. ...
Capital Darwin Government Const. ...
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For information on the fictional Shire of J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings, see Shire (Middle-earth) A shire is an administrative area of Great Britain. ...
A borough is a political division originally used in England. ...
A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ...
History
Counties were used since the earliest British settlement in Australia, with Sydney shown in the county of Cumberland since the first days of the colony. Many of the counties have English names, often the names of counties in England, such as Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and Kent counties in Tasmania. Less frequently, some have Aboriginal names such as Yungnulgra county in New South Wales, and Croajingolong county in Victoria. Cumberland County is a county in the State of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Indigenous peoples are: Peoples living in an area prior to colonization by a state Peoples living in an area within a nation-state, prior to the formation of a nation-state, but who do not identify with the dominant nation. ...
The use of counties was popular in Australia in the nineteenth century, with many maps of Australian colonies showing the counties,[1] and towns and cities often listed in their county. Legal cases referenced counties [1], and many genealogical records for Australia in the nineteenth century list the county and parish for location of birth, deaths and marriages.[2],[3] [4]. The 1911 Britannica also describes Australian towns and cities as being in their respective county, including most of the capital cities: Melbourne, Bourke county [5];Sydney, Cumberland county [6];Brisbane, Stanley county [7]; Adelaide, Adelaide county; and Hobart, Buckingham county [8]. However it is not mentioned that Perth is located in the county of Perth[9], as even by this time counties were infrequently used in Western Australia, where they did not cover all of the settled areas, unlike the other states. Counties are also still referenced in industrial relations instruments, for example in this New South Wales award which excludes people from Yancowinna County. Similar award examples exist in the other states and territories that have been subdivided into counties. Counties are also used on paperwork for mortgage securities in banks. (Redirected from 1911 Britannica) The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...
Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...
Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of just under two million. ...
Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1. ...
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. ...
The Perth skyline viewed from the Swan River This article is about the urban area of Perth, Western Australia. ...
Labour law (American English: labor) or employment law is the body of laws, administrative rulings, and precedents which addresses the legal rights of, and restrictions on, working people and their organizations. ...
Usage Counties have since gone out of use in Australia, and are rarely used or even known by most of the population today. Part of the reason is that counties are based on the size of land, rather than population, so in a large country where most of the population live in cities on the coast while the countryside has a very low population density, they have little relevance. The counties which contain the capital cities have millions of people, while those in remote areas have a very small population. The county of Cumberland which contains Sydney, for instance, has a larger population than all the other counties in New South Wales combined. Another reason is that many of the counties' borders follow rivers, having being proclaimed before settlements developed, which means that towns which typically grow up on rivers often find themself in more than one county. Wangaratta, for instance, is located at the junction of the Ovens and King rivers, and is thus in three counties; Moira, Delatite and Bogong. Wangaratta is a medium sized town of about 26,000 people in the north east of Victoria, Australia, about 230 km from Melbourne along the Hume Highway, with Benalla approximately 45 kilometres to the south-west, and Albury-Wodonga 72 kilometres to the northeast. ...
The Ovens River at Bright Wandiligong hedge maze Tobacco crops in the Ovens Valley The Ovens River is a river in the Australian state of Victoria. ...
Some of the county names live on by being the same name of current day local government areas, general region names, towns or establishments in the area. For instance, the current Shire of Plantagenet and Shire of Victoria Plains in Western Australia are in the similar area to the county of Plantagenet and county of Victoria, respectively. The modern city of Devonport in Tasmania is located in the county of Devon. Some regions do promote the county name such as Argyle County, while Cadell County (roughly in the Murray Shire area) is still the name for a vineyard and motor lodge in the same area. The Shire of Victoria Plains is a Local Government Area of Western Australia based in the town of Calingiri (; post code: 6569). ...
Devonport City Council shown in green in map of Tasmania Devonport is a city in the north-west of Tasmania, Australia, at the mouth of the Mersey River. ...
By State/Territory
Australian Capital Territory  Map of Murray and Cowley counties in New South Wales in 1886, parts of which would eventually become the ACT The land which became the Australian Capital Territory was made from land in the New South Wales counties of Murray and Cowley. It does not have counties itself. Capital Canberra Government Const. ...
Capital Canberra Government Const. ...
New South Wales  The 141 counties of New South Wales, with the original Nineteen Counties shown in pink -
There are 141 counties and 7,459 parishes within New South Wales. Cumberland County has the largest population, which Sydney is located in. The original Nineteen Counties were the limits of settlement in the early part of the nineteenth century. The Nineteen Counties were the limits of location in the colony of New South Wales defined by the Governor of New South Wales Sir Ralph Darling in 1826 in accordance with a government order from Lord Bathurst, the secretary of State. ...
Cumberland County is a county in the State of New South Wales, Australia. ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...
The Nineteen Counties were the limits of location in the colony of New South Wales defined by the Governor of New South Wales Sir Ralph Darling in 1826 in accordance with a government order from Lord Bathurst, the secretary of State. ...
Northern Territory There were only five counties in the Northern Territory, which were divided into hundreds. Capital Darwin Government Const. ...
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- Disraeli County
- Malmesbury County
- Palmerston County
- Roseberry County
Arnhem Land is an area of 97,000 km² in the north-eastern corner of the Northern Territory, Australia. ...
The Roper River is one of the largest rivers in the Northern Territory, Australia, extending east for over 500 km to meet the sea in Limmen Bight on the Gulf of Carpentaria. ...
Queensland  The 109 counties of Queensland in 1893 There are currently 322 counties in Queensland, subdivided into 5,319 parishes.[2] In the nineteenth century there were 109 counties, which were later divided into 319. The counties which contain the largest population are those in the south east with the County of Stanley containing Brisbane; the County of Ward containing the Gold Coast and the County of Canning containing Caboolture The County of Stanley is a county in Queensland, Australia. ...
Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of just under two million. ...
For other places with the same name, see Gold Coast. ...
Caboolture () is the administrative centre of the Caboolture Shire LGA in South East Queensland, Australia. ...
South Australia -
Main article: Cadastral divisions of South Australia  The 37 counties of South Australia in 1886; later 12 more were proclaimed There are forty nine counties in South Australia, mostly in the south-east part of the state. The counties are divided into 526 hundreds. All of the counties had been proclaimed by 1900, except for Le Hunte (proclaimed 1908), Bosanquet (proclaimed 1913), and Hore-Ruthven (proclaimed 1933).[3] A hundred is a geographic division used in England, Scandinavia, and some parts of the USA, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative units. ...
Tasmania  The 18 counties of Tasmania, most with English names. Tasmania is divided into 18 counties, as noted in the 1907 Nuttall Encyclopedia - Arthur County
- Buckingham County
- Cornwall County
- Cumberland County
- Devon County
- Dorset County
- Franklin County
- Glamorgan County
- Kent County
- Lincoln County
- Monmouth County
- Montague County
- Montgomery County
- Pembroke County
- Russell County
- Somerset County
- Wellington County
- Westmoreland County
Victoria -
The counties of Victoria were gazetted in stages between 1849 and 1890. There are 37 counties, roughly 40 x 40 miles in size, which are further divided into either 2004[10] or 2914[11] parishes. The parishes were further subdivided into sections of about 1x1 mile, or designated as a town and then divided into sections and these subdivided into crown allotments. The county with the largest population is the County of Bourke, which contains Melbourne. 1877 map of the counties of Victoria The Australian state of Victoria is divided into counties. ...
Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
Western Australia  25 counties in Western Australia, located in the south west of the state Western Australia has 25 counties, all located in the south-west corner of the state, around Perth. They were designated in 1829, the year of the foundation of the Swan River Colony, with Governor Stirling instructing that counties were to be approximately 40 miles square (1600 square miles). Swan River Colony was a British settlement established at the Swan River on the west coast of Australia in 1829. ...
Admiral Sir James Stirling Admiral Sir James Stirling (January 28, 1791–April 23, 1865) was a British marine officer and colonial administrator. ...
- Beaufort County
- Carnarvon County
- Durham County
- Glenelg County
- Goderich County
- Grantham County
- Grey County
- Hay County
- Howick County
- Kent County
- Lanark County
- Melbourne County
- Minto County
- Murray County
- Nelson County
- Peel County
- Plantagenet County
- Perth County
- Stirling County
- Sussex County
- Wellington County
- Wicklow County
- York County
Reference - ^ New country and rail road map of New South Wales [cartographic material : showing rail roads, coach roads, cities, towns &c. 1887. MAP RM 1975.]
- ^ Queensland government, Cadastral mapping
- ^ The Hundreds of South Australia; shows the proclamation date of counties
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