The County of Bowen is a
county (a
cadastral division
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref>
Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
) in
Queensland, Australia, located in the
Wide Bay–Burnett region to the west of
Bundaberg
Bundaberg is a city in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia, and is the tenth largest city in the state. Bundaberg's regional area has a population of 70,921, and is a major centre of the Wide Bay–Burnett geographical region. The Bun ...
. It was named in honour of Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the first
Governor of Queensland. On 7 March 1901, the
Governor issued a proclamation legally dividing Queensland into counties under the ''Land Act 1897''.
Its schedule described Bowen thus:
Parishes
Bowen is divided into parishes, as listed below:
References
Bowen Bowen may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Bowen, Queensland, a town
* Bowen Hills, Queensland, a suburb
** Bowen Hills railway station, a railway station in Bowen Hills
** Bowen Park, Brisbane, a park in Bowen Hills
* Bowen Bridge, crossing the Derw ...
External links
* {{cite web, url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-2mile-county-bowen-1923.jpg, title=Map of the County of Bowen, last=, first=, date=1923, website=, publisher=
Queensland Government, url-status=live, archive-url=, archive-date=, access-date=