County of Deas Thompson

Deas Thompson
Queensland
Location within Queensland
Lands administrative divisions around Deas Thompson:
Livingstone Livingstone Coral Sea
Raglan Deas Thompson Coral Sea
Raglan Clinton Clinton
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The County of Deas Thompson is a county (a cadastral division) in Queensland, Australia. It is situated between the cities of Gladstone and Rockhampton.[1] The county is divided into civil parishes. The county was named for Edward Deas Thomson, a New South Wales politician, but the name was misspelt Thompson when applied to the county.[2][3]

The county was created on 1 September 1855 by royal proclamation under the Waste Lands Australia Act 1846.[4] On 7 March 1901, the Governor issued a proclamation legally dividing Queensland into counties under the Land Act 1897.[5] Its schedule described Deas Thompson thus:

Bounded on the south by the county of Clinton; on the west by the western boundaries of the parishes of Raglan and Ultimo; on the north by the northern boundaries of the parishes of Ultimo, San Jose and Casuarina; and on the east by the Pacific Ocean,—including Curtis and Facing and other adjacent islands.

  1. ^ Queensland showing counties / compiled and published at the Survey Department, Brisbane, Brisbane : Survey Dept., 1900.
  2. ^ "Deas Thompson (entry 9554)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  3. ^ Port Curtis District, County of Deas Thompson Maps – F2 Series at Queensland Archives.
  4. ^ "Proclamation". New South Wales Government Gazette. 29 June 1855. p. 1855:1737–1738.
  5. ^ "A Proclamation". Queensland Government Gazette. Vol. 75. 8 March 1901. pp. 967–980.