Lands administrative divisions of Queensland refers to the divisions of Queensland used for the registration of land titles. There are 322 counties, and 5,319 parishes within the state.[1][2] They are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Australia. Queensland had been divided into 109 counties in the nineteenth century, before the Land Act of 1897 subdivided many of these counties to 319. Some of the eastern counties remained the same, with most of the subdivisions occurring in the west and north. The current counties were named and bounded by the Governor in Council on 7 March 1901.[3][4]
In 2006, the government sought advice about a plan to abolish the counties and parishes within the state.[5] From 30 November 2015, the government no longer referenced counties and parishes in land information systems however the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying retains a record for historical purposes.[6]
- ^ The third and final edition of the Queensland Parish Directory (Department of Mapping and Surveying, Brisbane, 1986; online at https://www.publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/historical-parish-directoryqueensland) lists 5302 parishes in alphabetical order, numbered 1 to 5317, but with 15 numbers in the sequence omitted for unexplained reasons
- ^ "Cadastral mapping". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- ^ "Kendall – county (entry 17923)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- ^ Queensland. Survey Office. "Digital Collections - Maps - Queensland. Survey Office. Queensland showing counties". Nla.gov.au. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ "900 Years of History to Disappear in Queensland" (Press release). Ipswich City Council. 14 June 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ "Locality boundaries - Queensland". Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy. 27 August 2017. Archived from the original on 31 March 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.