The County of Stanley is a
cadastral division centred on the city of
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
in
Queensland
)
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, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
, Australia, that is used mainly for the purpose of registering land titles. It was named after
Edward Stanley, who was three times British prime minister in the 1850s and 1860s. It is bounded by the
Logan River in the south, the
Brisbane River
The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the ...
at what is now
Lake Wivenhoe
Lake Wivenhoe is the name both a lake formed by the Wivenhoe Dam and the locality which contains it in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lake Wivenhoe had a population of three people.
Geography
The locality includes the da ...
in the west, the
Stanley River at what is now
Lake Somerset
The Somerset Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with a gated spillway across the Stanley River in Queensland, Australia. It is within the locality of Somerset Dam in the Somerset Region in South East Queensland. The main purpose of the dam is ...
in the north-west, and
Caboolture River in the north. It includes
Moreton Island
Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia. The Coral Sea lies on the east coast of the island. Moreton Island lies northeast of the Queensland capital, Brisban ...
and
Stradbroke Island, and extends west to
Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ...
's CBD, south to
Loganlea
Loganlea is a suburb in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. In the , Loganlea had a population of 7,321 people.
Geography
The eastern boundary of Loganlea is marked by a winding section of the Logan River. The north of the suburb is ...
and north to
Morayfield.
History
Stanley was formerly a county in
New South Wales
)
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, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
between the establishment of
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
in 1826, and the formation of
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
as a separate colony in 1859, and was officially established by proclamation on 27 February 1843. It was generally understood (though only somewhat formally defined) to include the land between the 27th and 28th parallels of latitude,
Moreton Bay and the western ranges, covering an area of . In 1852 it had a population of 2,000.
Wheat
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,
coffee
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world.
Seeds of ...
,
cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor pe ...
and
tobacco
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were described as being important crops. By 1863, the county had contracted to its present boundaries.
On 7 March 1901, the
Governor of Queensland
The governor of Queensland is the representative in the state of Queensland of the monarch of Australia. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governor performs constitutional and ceremonial func ...
proclaimed new boundaries under the ''Land Act 1897'',
and Stanley was described as follows:
Parishes
Stanley is divided into parishes, listed as follows:
See also
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Local government in Australia
Local government is the third level of government in Australia, administered with limited autonomy under the states and territories, and in turn beneath the federal government. Local government is not mentioned in the Constitution of Austral ...
*
County
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
References
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