Toko County is one of the 318

Counties of Queensland A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) ''Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denotin ...

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. It is within the North Gregory District of western Queensland. The county is divided into civil parishes. The county is on the

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Border.

History

The county was created in 1901. The first White people to pass through the area were the

Burke and Wills expedition The Burke and Wills expedition (originally called the Victorian Exploring Expedition) was an exploration expedition organised by the Royal Society of Victoria (RSV) in Australia in 1860–61. The exploration party initially consisted of ninet ...

in 1860, and the rescue expeditions that followed. Today the predominant land use is

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation. though the county is largely uninhabited. The county is located in the

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, close to the

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and the seat of local government is at Boulia.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Toko Counties of Queensland 1901 establishments in Australia

History

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