Loftus Parish (Cowper County), New South Wales

Loftus Parish is a civil parish of Cowper County, New South Wales;[1] a Cadastral division of New South Wales.[2] located at 30°13'05.0"S 146°27'57.0"E between Byrock, New South Wales and Bourke, New South Wales.

Geography

The Bogan River flows along the northern boundary of the parish which is in Brewarrina Shire. The economy is largely based on agriculture and the parish vegetated in mainly scrub forests. The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid).[3]

References
  1. [cartographer] C.A. Orwin, [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233873384/view Map of the County of Rankin : Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914).
  2. The New atlas of Australia] (John Sands, 1886) map 24.
  3. 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)


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