Titheroo County is one of the 318 counties of Queensland, Australia.Queensland showing counties / compiled and published at the Survey Department, Brisbane, Brisbane : Survey Dept., 1900. The county is divided into civil parishes. It is within the South Gregory Land District.
The county was carved off from the adjoining Wellington County in 1901. Queensland. Survey Office 28 May 2012. The county is sparsely settled and lies on the Queensland - New South Wales border. The seat of local government is the town of Cunnamulla which lies in the adjacent Wellington County.
History The original indigenous inhabitants of the area were the Karenggapa and Kunja people.Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kunja (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. . The area's first European explorer was Thomas Mitchell who passed through the region in 1846."Cunnamulla - Queensland - Australia - Travel". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 8 February 2004. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
The state border forms the southern boundary of the County and Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park in New South Wales is to the south of the county.
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