Historical County Boundaries of New South Wales, Australia

141 historical county divisions of New South Wales, used for Crown land administration. The dataset is part of the NSW Administrative Boundaries Theme and is maintained in topological alignment with current property data. It is published by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical land administration patterns based on the 141 county divisions.
• Aligning historical parish and county maps with modern property datasets for cadastral research.
• Studying the evolution of land management boundaries in New South Wales.

Strengths

• Contains 141 distinct county boundary features.
• Maintains topological alignment with the current Lot and Property digital dataset.
• Sourced from historical Parish and County maps held at State Records.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The service is scheduled for retirement and references an older spatial reference (GDA94).
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (Department of Customer Service NSW)

Collection Method

Digitized from historical Parish and County maps.

Time Range

Historical; data currency is listed as 01/01/3000.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 20:04:17.675887; freshness should be verified.

Geography

State of New South Wales, Australia