The County of Flinders is a county (a cadastral division) in Queensland, Australia, located in the Central Queensland region between Gladstone and Bundaberg.Port Curtis District, County of Flinders Maps – F3 Series at Queensland Archives. Queensland showing counties / compiled and published at the Survey Department, Brisbane, Brisbane : Survey Dept., 1900. 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. On 7 March 1901, the Governor issued a proclamation legally dividing Queensland into counties under the Land Act 1897. Its schedule described Flinders thus:
Parishes Flinders is divided into parishes, as listed below:
Parish LGA Coordinates Towns Arthurs Seat Gladstone Baffle Gladstone Bulburin Gladstone Bunker Gladstone Euleilah Gladstone Eurimbula Gladstone Town of 1770 Littabella Bundaberg Watalgan Miriam Vale Gladstone Miriam Vale Polmaily Gladstone Bororen Rodds Bay Gladstone Rosedale Gladstone Rosedale (S) Taunton Gladstone Thornhill Gladstone Tottenham Gladstone Rosedale (N) Uxbridge Gladstone Agnes Water Warro Gladstone Lowmead
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