Land District of Queanbeyan

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Land District of Queanbeyan
New South Wales

Map of the district in 1907
County: Murray, Cowley, Buccleuch
Division: Eastern
Land Board: Cooma
LGA: Yarrowlumla Shire (former)
Cadastral units around Land District of Queanbeyan
Yass Yass Goulburn
Tumut Land District of Queanbeyan Braidwood
Tumut Cooma Braidwood

The Land District of Queanbeyan was one of the around 100 land districts of New South Wales which were introduced with the Crown Lands Act of 1884. It was based around the town of Queanbeyan, and included the area from near Lake George in the north, to Colinton in the south, and west to the Goodradigbee River and beyond it. In 1909, a large part of the district was transferred to the Commonwealth government to become the Australian Capital Territory.

The district was located in the Eastern Division, and included land in the counties of Murray and Cowley, and a small part of Buccleuch. In 1890 the district was part of the Cooma Land Board [1]. By 1907 the district was administered by the Goulburn Land Board [2]. Cadastral maps made in the area have the name of the land district written on them. [3][4]

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  1. ^ Map of New South Wales shewing all divisions for the purposes of the Crown Lands Acts, 1890. MAP RM 894, National Library of Australia
  2. ^ Map of New South Wales showing all divisions for the purposes of the Crown Lands acts. 1907. MAP RM 2795. National Library of Australia
  3. ^ Parish of Gibralter, County of Cowley, Land District of Queanbeyan, Cadastral map showing parish boundaries and land holdings.
  4. ^ Plan of the town of Queanbeyan, parish of Queanbeyan, County of Murray, land district of Queanbeyan N.S.W. 1887