Shire of Warwick

Shire of Warwick Queensland
Location within Queensland
Population	21,417 (2006 census)[1]
• Density	4.84296/km^2 (12.5432/sq mi)
Established	1994
Area	4,422.3 km^2 (1,707.5 sq mi)
Council seat	Warwick
Region	Darling Downs
Website	Shire of Warwick
LGAs around Shire of Warwick: Millmerran Clifton Gatton, Laidley Inglewood Shire of Warwick Boonah Stanthorpe Tenterfield (NSW) Tenterfield (NSW)

The Shire of Warwick was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The administrative centre and major town of the shire was the town of Warwick.

History

On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas.^[2] That recommendation was not implemented, but the outcome was that the City of Warwick was merged with the Shires of Allora, Glengallan and Rosenthal to form the new Shire of Warwick. The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the Shire of Warwick was established.^[3][4]

Under the local council amalgamation programme instigated by the Queensland Government in 2007, the Shires of Stanthorpe and Warwick merged in March 2008 to create the Southern Downs Region.^[3][5]

Towns and localities

The Shire of Warwick included the following settlements:

Warwick area: Warwick

Allora area: Allora Berat Clintonvale Deuchar Ellinthorp Goomburra Hendon Mount Marshall Talgai Willowvale^*

Glengallan area: Killarney Canningvale Elbow Valley Emu Vale Freestone Gladfield Glengallan Junabee Maryvale Morgan Park Mount Colliery Mount Sturt Mount Tabor Sladevale Swanfels Tannymorel The Falls Tregony Wiyarra Womina Yangan

Rosenthal area: Rosenthal Heights Allan Cunningham Dalveen Greymare Karara Leslie Leslie Dam Leyburn Palgrave Pratten Rosehill Thane Wheatvale

^* - not to be confused with Willow Vale, Queensland

Population

Year	Population
1986	17,127*
1991	18,732*
1996	19,967
2001	20,694
2006	21,417

* - from time series data

Mayors

• Bruce Green
• Ron Bellingham

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Warwick (S) (Local Government Area)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
2. "External Boundaries of Local Authorities" (PDF). Electoral and Administrative Review Commission. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
3. "Agency ID6067, Warwick Shire Council". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
4. Warwick Shire Council - Shire History. Retrieved 16 December 2006.
5. "Agency ID11055, Southern Downs Regional Council". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 3 February 2014.