Dunlop Parish is a civil parish, Map of the County of Yanda, Western Division, NSW 1918. of Yanda County, a cadasteral division of New South Wales;[cartographer] C.A. Orwin, [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233873384/view Map of the County of Rankin : Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914). a Cadastral division of New South Wales.The New atlas of Australia (John Sands, 1886) map 24.Yanda County , GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES REGISTER EXTRACT./ The New atlas of Australia, (John Sands, 1886), map 24.
Location The Parish is on the Darling River upstream of Wilcannia, New South Wales[cartographer] C.A. Orwin, [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233873384/view Map of the County of Rankin : Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914).The New atlas of Australia (John Sands, 1886) map 24. and down stream of Bourke, New South Wales.
The only town of the parish is Louth, New South Wales.
Geography The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid). (direct: Final Revised Paper)
The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly Wheat, and sheep.
The Dunlop Ranges are in the parish.
History The traditional owners of the area are the Barkindji people,Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal TribesAboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. The first European to the area was Thomas Mitchell (explorer).
In 1859 when Thomas Andrew Mathews, an Irish immigrant from County Louth, built a pub to serve the passing trade along the Darling River.
In 1888 the first mechanised shearing of sheep, in the world, took place at Sir Samuel McCaughey's Dunlop Station.Trilby Station Retrieved 26 September 2011
External links Charles Bayliss, View from Dunlop Range, near Louth, Darling River looking south (1886). Charles. Bayliss, Homestead, Dunlop Station, Darling River (1886) , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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