The Plains Parish (Oxley County), New South Wales is a rural locality of Bogan Shire and a civil parish of Oxley County, New South Wales,[1] a Cadastral divisions of New South Wales.[2]
The parish is on the Bogan River south of Nyngan.[3]
The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid).[4]
The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, based on Wheat, sheep and cattle.
The traditional owners of the area are the Wiradjuri[5][6] people.
References edit
- ^ Robert McLean, The New atlas of Australia : the complete work containing over one hundred maps and full descriptive geography of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, together with numerous illustrations and copious indices (Sydney :John Sands, [1886) Map 14.
- ^ "Oxley County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
- ^ County of Oxley, New South Wales. Department of Lands 1922 map.
- ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. (direct: Final Revised Paper)
- ^ Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
- ^ Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS.
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