Cheviot County

{{Short description|Former county in New Zealand}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2010}} {{Infobox Former Subdivision |conventional_long_name = Cheviot County |common_name = Cheviot County |subdivision = [[County (New Zealand)|County]] |nation = [[New Zealand]] |p1 = |s1 = |flag_s1 = |year_start = 1876 |event_end = |year_end = 1989 |date_end = |image_coat = |image_map = |capital = [[Cheviot, New Zealand|Cheviot]] |stat_area1 = 847 |stat_pop1 = |stat_year1 = |category= |today = [[Hurunui District]] |footnotes = }} '''Cheviot County''' was one of the [[counties of New Zealand]] in the [[South Island]].

During the period 1853 to 1876, the area that would become Cheviot County was administered as part of [[Nelson Province]]. With the [[Provinces of New Zealand#Abolition of Provinces Act 1876|Abolition of Provinces Act 1876]], Cheviot County was created, taking over administration of its area in January 1877. The county council's administrative headquarters was located in [[Cheviot, New Zealand|Cheviot]].

Cheviot County existed until the [[1989 local government reforms]], when the [[Hurunui District]] was formed through the amalgamation of the administrative areas of Cheviot County, [[Amuri County]] and the part of [[Kaikoura County]] south of the [[Hundalee Hills]] (an area which had been the subject of a failed 1971 proposal to create a Hurunui County).<ref name="2009 Hurunui merger">{{cite web |url= http://www.lgc.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/KaikouraHurunuiDetermination.pdf |title=Determination on proposal for the abolition of Kaikoura District and its inclusion in Hurunui District |work=[[Local Government Commission (New Zealand)|Local Government Commission]] |date=May 2009 |access-date=6 November 2018}}</ref>

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[[Category:Counties of New Zealand]] [[Category:Politics of the Canterbury Region]]