The Shire of Warwick was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The administrative centre and major town of the shire was the town of Warwick.
History On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into three new local government areas. That recommendation was not implemented, but the City of Warwick was merged with the Shires of Allora, Glengallan and Rosenthal to form the new Shire of Warwick. The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the Shire of Warwick was established.Warwick Shire Council - Shire History. Retrieved 16 December 2006.
Under the local council amalgamation programme instigated by the Queensland Government in 2007, the Shires of Stanthorpe and Warwick were merged in March 2008 to create the Southern Downs Region.
Towns and localities The Shire of Warwick included the following settlements:
Warwick area: Warwick
Allora area: Allora Berat Clintonvale Deuchar Ellinthorp Goomburra Hendon Mount Marshall Talgai Willowvale*
Glengallan area: Killarney Canningvale Elbow Valley Emu Vale Freestone Gladfield Glengallan Junabee Maryvale Morgan Park Mount Colliery Mount Sturt Mount Tabor Sladevale Swanfels Tannymorel The Falls Tregony Wiyarra Womina Yangan
Rosenthal area: Rosenthal Heights Allan Cunningham Dalveen Greymare Karara Leslie Leslie Dam Leyburn Palgrave Pratten Rosehill Thane Wheatvale
* Not to be confused with Willow Vale, Queensland
Population Year Population 1986 17,127* 1991 18,732* 1996 19,967 2001 20,694 2006 21,417
* From time series data
Mayors Bruce Green Ron Bellingham
Election results 1933
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