Shire of Warwick

Shire of Warwick Queensland
Location within Queensland
Population	21,417 (2006 census)[1]
• Density	4.84296/km2 (12.5432/sq mi)
Established	1994
Area	4,422.3 km2 (1,707.5 sq mi)
Council seat	Warwick
Region	Darling Downs
Website	Shire of Warwick
LGAs around Shire of Warwick: Millmerran Clifton Gatton, Laidley Inglewood Shire of Warwick Boonah Stanthorpe Tenterfield (NSW) 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.

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.^[2] 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.^[3][4]

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.^[3][5]

The Shire of Warwick included the following settlements:

^* Not to be confused with Willow Vale, Queensland

* From time series data

• Bruce Green
• Ron Bellingham^{[citation needed]}