County_of_Pelham

County of Pelham

County of Pelham

Cadastral in Queensland, Australia

The County of Pelham is a county (a cadastral division) in Queensland, Australia, located in the Shire of Banana in Central Queensland.[1][2][3] The county is divided into civil parishes. 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 Pelham thus:

Bounded on the north by the county of Raglan; on the east by the counties of Clinton and Rawbelle; on the south by the county of Rawbelle and the southern watershed of Scoria and Prospect Creeks; and on the west by the eastern watershed of the Dawson River.

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Parishes

Pelham is divided into parishes, as listed below:

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References

  1. [1]
    "Pelham (entry 26314)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  2. [2]
    Port Curtis District, County of Pelham Maps - F9 Series at Queensland Archives.
  3. [3]
    Queensland showing counties / compiled and published at the Survey Department, Brisbane, Brisbane : Survey Dept., 1900.
  4. [4]
    "Proclamation". New South Wales Government Gazette. 29 June 1855. p. 1855:1737–1738.
  5. [5]
    "A Proclamation". Queensland Government Gazette. Vol. 75. 8 March 1901. pp. 967–980.

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