Barraba Shire was a local government area located in the

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, Australia, about north of Tamworth via Fossickers Way. The Shire, administered from the town of Barraba covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1906 until 2004, when it was split between two new LGAs,

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and

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History

In 1897, a progress association was brought into being by local residents to advocate for the area and to manage infrastructure. With the passage of the ''Local Government Act 1906'', which established shires all over New South Wales, the Barraba Shire was gazetted on 6 March 1906. As the town met the requirements for municipality status, it was separately gazetted as the Barraba Municipality on 19 May 1906. S. J. Lillis was elected the municipality's first mayor, while John Morrow became the first Barraba Shire president. On 1 November 1953, the Barraba Municipality was abolished and the town came under the Shire's authority. On 17 March 2004, Barraba Shire was abolished. (41%) of its area and 340 people in the Shire's north were transferred to the new

, composed otherwise of the former Yallaroi and

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Shires. The rest, including the town of Barraba, was transferred to the new

, formed from the former

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and the Shires of Manilla,

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and most of

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Towns

* Barraba * Banoon * Cobbadah † * Gulf Creek † * Gundamulda † *

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* Lindesay † * Longarm * Mayvale * Red Hill *

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† * Woodsreef † Transferred to Gwydir upon abolition.

Population

References

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