The NSW Administrative Boundaries Web Service is a dynamic map of administrative and property boundaries. Administrative Areas Boundaries depict a polygon feature class within the NSW Digital Cadastral Database maintained by Spatial Services (DCS). The administrative boundaries provided through this web service includes: Counties, Suburbs, Parishes, Local Government Areas, State Forests, National Parks, State Electoral Districts.

The NSW Administrative Boundaries Web Service is a dynamic map of administrative and property boundaries. Administrative Areas Boundaries depict a polygon feature class within the NSW Digital Cadastral Database maintained by LPI. The administrative boundaries provided through this web service includes: Counties, Suburbs, Parishes, Local Government Areas,\tState Forests, National Parks, State Electoral Districts. For detailed information, for each individual dataset contained in this web services, please see the Digital Cadastre Database Dictionary published at http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/mapping_and_imagery/spatial_data.\r \r This web service allows users to easily integrate NSW Administrative Boundaries into OGC compliant spatial platforms and applications. Administrative Boundaries can be used to aggregate information for analytical purposes and analyse time series trends. Administrative boundary data in combination with geo-coded address data, demographic information and agency specific business information underpins the ability to perform high quality spatial analysis.

Parish depicts the boundaries of 7,377 areas formed by the division of 141 counties. It is a polygon feature class within the NSW Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB). Parishes are divided into separately disposable parcels called ‘portions’, these being the common basic units of land disposed of by the Crown. Other basic units are allotments in Government Towns and Villages.

This dataset consists of the counties of the British colony of New South Wales (including portions that were later separated as Victoria and Queensland) as at the end of 1850. Counties were administrative regions largely used for purposes of land grants and sales, but also used for some colonial statistics, including five-yearly census returns. Counties could be either formally gazetted or informally defined for administrative purposes. Up to 1826 only seven counties had entered common use, of these only five had been formally gazetted. In 1829 the number of counties was increased to a total of nineteen - the so-called 'limits of location', beyond which land sales were (for a period) restricted. A small number of counties came into official use in the period following while remaining ungazetted. A further 31 counties were gazetted in 1848, while another 32 counties were authorised by the Surveyor General (but not gazetted) in 1850. No further changes to the number of counties were made until 1861.

While counties in New South Wales remain in use, they have fallen out of usage in both Victoria and Queensland. There have also been some changes to boundaries within New South Wales since 1850.

This dataset was created as part of the PhD research project, ‘Settlers and the city: the colonising entanglements of Sydney, its settlers, and their world, 1830-50’, undertaken by Nicholas Pitt and accepted April 2024.

The data was created by combining multiple data sources (historical and contemporary) as described in the methodology. The fields consist of: Year: Earliest known year of the county name in use County: County name DateSource: Source of the earliest known year BoundarySource: Main source for verifying boundaries - note that multiple sources were used, as described in the methodology.

NSW County is a dataset within the NSW Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB). It depicts one of 141 basic divisions of the State of New South Wales, further divided into parishes, for administrative purposes, especially for management and disposal of Crown lands. County and Parish are historical layers and the information contained in these layers was gathered from Parish and County maps which are now held at State Records (digital versions can be accessed through the Historical Lands Records Viewer). Boundaries in this dataset can be updated (if necessary) after a manual title inspection.

County depicts the boundaries of 141 divisions of the State of New South Wales created for management and disposal of Crown Lands. It is a polygon feature class within the NSW Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB).

The Counties of New South Wales were loosely defined on several occasions between 1788 and 1835, including the "19 Counties" (beyond which Settlement was officially prohibited). The seventeen counties proclaimed in the Letters Patent dated 26 November 1835 were final proclamations of the Counties and descriptions of their boundaries. This document is the original signed parchment.

The Proclamation was published in the New South Wales Government Gazette.

(SR Document No. 15). 1 document.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft. This dataset contains data for Local Government Areas in Australia.The ASGS Local Government Areas are an ABS approximation of gazetted local government boundaries as defined by each State and Territory Local Government Department. Local Government Areas cover incorporated areas of Australia. Incorporated areas are legally designated parts of a State or Territory over which incorporated local governing bodies have responsibility. The major areas of Australia not administered by incorporated bodies are the northern parts of South Australia, and all of the Australian Capital Territory and the Other Territories. These regions are identified as ‘Unincorporated’ in the ASGS Local Government Areas structure.More information on local governments can be found at the Australian Local Government Association website: http://www.alga.asn.au The suffix on Long Official Name Local Government Area indicates the Local Government Area status: Cities (C), Areas (A), Rural Cities (RC), Boroughs (B), Shires (S), Towns (T), Regional Councils (R), Municipalities/Municipal Councils (M), District Councils (DC), Regional Councils (RegC), Aboriginal Councils (AC).Processors and tools are using this data.EnhancementsAdd ISO 3166-3 codes.Simplify geometries to provide better performance across the services.

(9/696-97; microfilm copy SR Reel 2883). 2 vols.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

The Map Compiling Branch was responsible for the preparation of maps of towns, parishes, counties, municipalities, shires and Land Board districts. The original manuscript was drawn and from this were printed multiple copies for public sale. One copy was set aside to be used as an office copy for the notation of any changes in land ownership.

At the same time, when the heliograph process of reprinting was in use, one copy was printed on impregnated linen, and this, known as the Helio Standard was used as a master copy for further reproduction when additional copies were needed to be printed.

The helio standards in parish and county maps show details of land usage, land ownership, stock routes, public roads, public reserves, gold fields, and boundaries of county, parish, land district, shire, Pastures Protection Board, and municipality.

A full listing is available; indexed in a card index available in the Western Sydney reading room.

(SR Map Nos. 50000-51697, 51824-46; Kingswood X1333-41). 1,730 maps.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.