Delalah CountyKillen, New South Wales is a
civil Parish, of the
County of Delalah, a
cadasteral division of
New South Wales.
Geography
The
topography is the flat
arid landscape of the
Channel County with a
Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot arid).
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The
economy in the parish is based on broad acre
agriculture, mainly
Wheat, and
sheep. There are no towns in the parish and the nearest settlement is
Wanaaring, New South Wales and
Hungerford, Queensland.
The
cattle station Thurloo Downs
Thurloo Downs Station most commonly known as Thurloo Downs is a pastoral lease that has operated as both a sheep station and a cattle station in outback New South Wales. It is located approximately north of White Cliffs and north west of B ...
was in the parish.
History
The parish is on the traditional land of the
Karrengappa
The Karenggapa are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated the extent of their tribal lands at , reaching from Mount Bygrave in northwestern New South Wales to Woodbum Lake in Queensland. They too ...
people. The first
Europeans through the area were
Burke and Wills and in the 1890s was included in the
Albert Goldfield
The Albert Goldfield (or Albert mining district) is an area of 1300 square kilometres (500 square miles) in the outback of New South Wales where gold was discovered in 1880.
Gold was found at Mount Browne, which is south west of Tibooburra. The ...
s.
References
Parishes of Delalah County
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