Early Land Districts
Parts of the land which were outside the Nineteen Counties were divided into squatting districts in the early nineteenth century . In 1846 New South Wales was divided into settled districts, intermediate districts and unsettled districts. In 1861 the system of settled and unsettled districts were abolished with the Crown Lands Acts, while new types of districts called first and second class settled districts, as well as town land and suburban land came into being. The various districts used:
- Albert District (west of the Darling River)
- Bligh District, east of the Macquarie River. (1841 population of 402, with 118,341 sheep and 24,064 cattle) In 1852, it was described as being 5 million acres (20,000 km²), with 140,000 sheep, 40,000 cattle and 2,000 horses.
- Clarence River District. In 1852, it was described as being 5 million acres (20,000 km²), with 200,000 sheep, 40,000 cattle and 2,000 horses.
- Gwydir District (Moree area)
- Lachlan District – between the Lachlan River and Murrumbidgee River. (1841 population of 792, with 111,154 sheep and 57,920 cattle)
- Liverpool Plains District (1841 population of 1012, with 230,102 sheep, 102,738 cattle and 1045 horses) In 1852, it was described as being larger than 10 million acres (40,000 km²), with 400,000 sheep, 220,000 cattle and 4,000 horses. There was an Electoral district of Liverpool Plains in the same area in the nineteenth century, and the Liverpool Plains Shire is the modern shire.
- Lower Darling District (east of the Darling River)
- Maneroo District (south coast, now called Monaro) - south of the Moruya River and Queanbeyan River, and east of the Murrumbidgee River (1841 population of 1554, with 230,130 sheep, 78,473 cattle and 2133 horses) In 1852, it was described as having 400,000 sheep, 115,000 cattle and 5,000 horses.
- McLeay River District
- Murrumbidgee District (between the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers) (1841 population of 1139, with 180,654 sheep and 62,848 cattle) In 1852, it was described as being 12 million acres (49,000 km²), with 400,000 sheep, 100,000 cattle and 3,000 horses.
- New England District (New England region (1841 population of 702 with 201,926 sheep and 13,830 cattle)
- Port Macquarie District. (1841 population of 287, with 11,642 sheep and 5,885 cattle)
- Warrego District (between Darling River and Queensland border in the north)
- Wellington District, between the Lachlan River and Macquarie River. (1841 population of 656, with 119,441 sheep and 26,370 cattle)
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