The Parish of Blackwood is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far North West New South Wales,/ Map of the County of Poole : Western Division, .
Geography The geography is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The nearest town is Tibooburra to the south east, which is on the Silver City Highway and lies south of the Sturt National Park.Olive Downs campground.
The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert). (direct: Final Revised Paper) The County is barely inhabited with a population density of less than 1 person per 150 km² and the landscape is a flat arid scrubland.
History Charles Sturt camped at nearby Preservation CreekThe Sydney Morning Herald Sat 5 Mar 1932, Page 9. (Mount Poole) for six months during 1845,Sturt's Central Australian Expedition . and in 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east,The Burke and Wills Expedition . through what is now the Pindera Aboriginal Area.NSW National Parks and Wildlife service, Draft Plan of Management Sturt National Park, (2017) p 22.
Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s.
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