County of Flinders, Queensland

Flinders
Queensland
Location within Queensland
Lands administrative divisions around Flinders:
Clinton Coral Sea Coral Sea
Clinton Flinders Coral Sea
Yarrol Bowen Cook
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The County of Flinders is a county (a cadastral division) in Queensland, Australia, located in the Central Queensland region between Gladstone and Bundaberg.[1][2][3] The county is divided into civil parishes. It was named for Matthew Flinders who explored the Australian coastline.

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 Flinders thus:

Bounded on the south by the counties of Cook and Bowen; on the west by the county of Yarrol, the eastern watershed of the Boyne River, and the western boundary of the parist of Rodds Bay; and on the north and east by the Pacific Ocean.

  1. ^ "Flinders (entry 12768)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  2. ^ Port Curtis District, County of Flinders Maps – F3 Series at Queensland Archives.
  3. ^ Queensland showing counties / compiled and published at the Survey Department, Brisbane, Brisbane : Survey Dept., 1900.
  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.