Shire of Warwick

{{Infobox Australian place | type = lga

| name = Shire of Warwick

| state = qld

| image = Warwick LGA Qld.png

| image_upright = 0.81

| caption = Location within Queensland

| area = 4422.3

| est = 1994

| seat = Warwick

| pop = 21,417

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2006}}

| pop_footnotes ={{Census 2006 AUS | id = LGA37260 | name = Warwick (S) (Local Government Area) | accessdate=2008-03-18|quick = on}}

| region = Darling Downs

| logo = Warwick Logo.jpg

| url = http://www.warwick.qld.gov.au/

| near-nw = Millmerran

| near-n = Clifton

| near-ne = Gatton, Laidley

| near-w = Inglewood

| near-e = Boonah

| near-sw = Stanthorpe

| near-s = Tenterfield (NSW)

| near-se = Tenterfield (NSW)

}}

The Shire of Warwick was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The administrative centre and major town of the shire was the town of Warwick.

History

On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into three new local government areas.{{cite web|title=External Boundaries of Local Authorities|url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/PCEAR/1990/earc/pcear-report13.pdf|publisher=Electoral and Administrative Review Commission|access-date=3 February 2014}} That recommendation was not implemented, but the City of Warwick was merged with the Shires of Allora, Glengallan and Rosenthal to form the new Shire of Warwick. The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the Shire of Warwick was established.{{cite QSA Agency|6067|Warwick Shire Council|10 September 2013}}[http://www.warwick.qld.gov.au/shire_region/history.htm Warwick Shire Council] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041205081205/http://www.warwick.qld.gov.au/shire_region/history.htm |date=2004-12-05 }} - Shire History. Retrieved 16 December 2006.

Under the local council amalgamation programme instigated by the Queensland Government in 2007, the Shires of Stanthorpe and Warwick were merged in March 2008 to create the Southern Downs Region.{{cite QSA Agency|11055|Southern Downs Regional Council|3 February 2014}}