County of Elphinstone

Elphinstone
Elphinstone; Queensland
	Location within Queensland
	Lands administrative divisions around Elphinstone:

The County of Elphinstone is a cadastral division of Queensland which contains the city of Townsville. It was named after George Elphinstone Dalrymple (1826–1876), a politician and explorer.[1] Townsville is mentioned as being in the county of Elphinstone in the 1911 Britannica.[2] It is bounded by the Haughton River in the east, and part of the Burdekin River in the south-west.[3]

Parishes

Elphinstone is divided into parishes, listed as follows:

Parish	LGA	Coordinates	Towns
Abbotsford	Burdekin	19°27′S 147°03′E	Cungulla
Beor	Townsville	19°22′S 146°52′E	Oonoonba
Bohle	Townsville	19°15′S 146°40′E	Deeragun
Cardington	Charters Towers	19°49′S 146°48′E
Coonambelah	Townsville	19°14′S 146°47′E	Townsville, Kirwan, Pallarenda
Crimea	Charters Towers	19°45′S 146°40′E
Cunningham	Charters Towers	19°54′S 146°44′E	Mingela
Ettrick	Townsville	19°19′S 147°00′E
Glenrock	Townsville	19°37′S 146°38′E
Granite	Townsville	19°30′S 146°37′E
Halifax	Townsville	19°13′S 146°33′E	Bluewater
Hervey	Townsville	19°21′S 146°30′E
Lansdowne	Townsville	19°30′S 146°47′E
Magenta	Townsville	19°38′S 146°52′E	Woodstock
Magnetic	Townsville	19°07′S 146°49′E	Magnetic Island
Rokeby	Townsville	19°32′S 146°56′E
Ross	Townsville	19°23′S 146°40′E	Alice River, Kelso
Scott	Burdekin	19°34′S 147°03′E	Giru
Stuart	Townsville	19°22′S 146°48′E	Stuart, Annandale, Douglas
Woodstock	Townsville	19°42′S 146°59′E
Wyoming	Townsville	19°38′S 146°47′E

"Elphinestone – county (entry 11567)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Townsville" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 113.
North Kennedy District, County of Elphinstone Maps - L6 Series at Queensland Archives.

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