Blaxland County
county of New South Wales, Australia
Blaxland County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is bounded to the south by the Lachlan River and a small part of Waverley Creek. It includes Mount Hope and the Nombinnie Nature Reserve.
Blaxland County was named in honour of John Blaxland, landowner and merchant.
Parishes within this county
A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:
(*) The Parish of Illewong should not be confused with the former mining village of Illewong, nearer to Cobar, in the neighbouring Robinson County.
The public source identifies “Blaxland County” as county of New South Wales, Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Blaxland, County and county.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4925563. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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This entry incorporates text from “Blaxland County” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.