The County of Ward is a county (a cadastral division) in the south-eastern corner of Queensland, Australia. The main urban area within the county is the city of the Gold Coast, and it also extends to include the southern parts of the West Moreton region centred on Beaudesert and Boonah.Moreton District, County of Ward Maps - A5 Series at Queensland Archives.
History Ward was first created by an Order in Council by the Governor of New South Wales on 30 December 1848. It was then described in the following terms:
The Stanley–Ward boundary was somewhat imprecise — the 28th parallel met the sea near Southport, but gazettals and newspaper reports in the Moreton Bay Courier of land sales in the 1850s noted land between the Logan and Albert rivers as being within Ward, and numerous reports from 1863 onwards identified Boyd, Moffatt and Logan parishes to be part of Ward.
Upon the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859, the southern boundary of Ward became part of the southern boundary of the new colony. On 7 March 1901, the Governor of Queensland proclaimed new boundaries under the Land Act 1897, which were described as follows:
Parishes Like all counties in Queensland, Ward is divided into parishes. The parishes current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows: Parish LGA Coordinates Towns Albert Gold Coast Alberton, Ormeau (East), Woongoolba Alford Scenic Rim Barrow Gold Coast Paradise Point, Oxenford Beaudesert Scenic Rim Beaudesert, Laravale Boonnahbah Gold Coast Boyd Logan Beenleigh, Bethania, Windaroo Bromelton Scenic Rim Bromelton Cedar Gold Coast Tamborine Mountain, Upper Coomera Coochin Scenic Rim Boonah, Mount Alford Coomera Gold Coast Coomera Currigee Gold Coast South Stradbroke Island Darlington Gold Coast Ormeau (West) Dugandan Scenic Rim Gilston Gold Coast Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads Jimboomba Logan Jimboomba Kerry Scenic Rim Kerry Knapp Scenic Rim Rathdowney Logan Logan Woodhill Melcombe Scenic Rim Moffatt Logan Logan Village, Waterford Mudgeeraba Gold Coast Mudgeeraba Mundoolun Logan Mundoolun Nerang Gold Coast Nerang, Southport, Carrara Nindooinbah Scenic Rim Numinbah Gold Coast Numinbah Valley, Springbrook Palen Scenic Rim Pimpama Gold Coast Pimpama Roberts Scenic Rim Sarabah Scenic Rim Tabragalba Scenic Rim Canungra Tallebudgera Gold Coast Palm Beach, Coolangatta Tamborine Scenic Rim Tamborine Tamrookum Scenic Rim Tamrookum Telemon Scenic Rim Teviot Scenic Rim Wickham Logan Witheren Scenic Rim Beechmont, Witheren
See also Cadastral divisions of Queensland
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