{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = lga | name = Shire of Pittsworth | state = qld | image = Pittsworth LGA Qld.png | image_upright = 0.81 | caption = Location within Queensland | pop = 4688 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2006}} | pop_footnotes =<ref>{{Census 2006 AUS | id = LGA36050 | name = Pittsworth (S) (Local Government Area) | accessdate=2008-03-18|quick = on}}</ref> | area = 1089.5 | est = 1913 | seat = Pittsworth | region = Darling Downs | logo = Pittsworth Logo.jpg | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080214185349/http://www.pittsworth.qld.gov.au/ | near-nw = Jondaryan | near-n = Jondaryan | near-ne = Jondaryan | near-w = Millmerran | near-e = Jondaryan | near-sw = Millmerran | near-s = Clifton | near-se = Cambooya }}
The '''Shire of Pittsworth''' was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, about {{convert|40|km|mi|0}} southwest of the regional city of Toowoomba. The shire covered an area of {{convert|1089.5|km2|sqmi|1}}, and existed as a local government entity from 1913 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several other councils in the Toowoomba area to form the Toowoomba Region.
==History== The Shire of Pittsworth came into existence on 24 April 1913 after its residents voted to split away from the Shire of Jondaryan. It held its first meeting on 9 July 1913 at which W.P. Copp was elected chairman by 5 votes to 4. A new hall and council office was built for £766 in 1914, but in 1956 the council relocated to the new Civic Centre in Yandilla Street, Pittsworth, consisting of a Town Hall and Shire Chambers. Pittsworth was an undivided council and elected a mayor and six councillors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pittsworth.qld.gov.au/council/general_information.shtml|title=Pittsworth Shire Council – the First Beginnings|author=Pittsworth Shire Council|year=2004|accessdate=2008-04-02 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080719021337/http://www.pittsworth.qld.gov.au/council/general_information.shtml <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2008-07-19}}</ref>
On 15 March 2008, under the ''Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007'' passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the Shire of Pittsworth merged with the City of Toowoomba and the Shires of Cambooya, Clifton, Crows Nest, Jondaryan, Millmerran and Shire of Rosalie to form the Toowoomba Region.
==Towns and localities== The Shire of Pittsworth includes the following settlements:
{{col-begin|width=50%}} {{col-break}} * Pittsworth * Biddeston * Bongeen * Branchview * Brookstead * Broxburn * Felton * Irongate * Kincora * Linthorpe * Mount Tyson {{col-break}} * Nangwee * North Branch * Norwin * Rossvale * Scrubby Mountain * Southbrook * Springside * St Helens * Stoneleigh * Yarranlea {{col-end}}
==Population== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Population |- | 1933 || 3,544 |- | 1947 || 3,599 |- | 1954 || 3,731 |- | 1961 || 3,821 |- | 1966 || 3,713 |- | 1971 || 3,795 |- | 1976 || 3,714 |- | 1981 || 3,605 |- | 1986 || 3,880 |- | 1991 || 4,035 |- | 1996 || 4,264 |- | 2001 || 4,445 |- | 2006 || 4,688 |}
==Chairmen and Mayors== The leaders of the shire are listed below.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pittsworth Shire Council Past Chairmen and Mayors|url=http://www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au/our-region/history/tmbacitymayors/pittsworth/5629-pittsworth-shire-council-past-chairmen-and-mayors|publisher=Toowoomba Regional Council|accessdate=30 January 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202124743/http://www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au/our-region/history/tmbacitymayors/pittsworth/5629-pittsworth-shire-council-past-chairmen-and-mayors|archivedate=2 February 2014}}</ref>
===Chairmen=== * 1913–15: William Perham Copp * 1915–17: Jacob Bickerton * 1917–18: William Sullivan * 1918–21: Arthur Carl Krieg * 1921–23: Jacob Bickerton * 1923: Jonas Holmes * 1923–36: Arthur Carl Krieg * 1936–39: William Lee-Archer * 1939–46: Arthur Carl Krieg * 1946–49: William Lee-Archer * 1949–57: Sir Alan Roy Fletcher * 1957–67: Leslie Joppich * 1967–85: Ross Thomas Stirling * 1985–94: Lawrence Dudley Stallman
===Mayors=== * 1994–98: W J Drummond * 1998–2008: Ros S Scotney
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{cite web|title=Pittsworth Shire Council|url=http://www.pittsworth.qld.gov.au/|work=Official Website|publisher=Pittsworth Shire Council|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007225834/http://www.pittsworth.qld.gov.au/|archivedate=7 October 2007}}
{{Queensland former LGAs}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pittsworth Shire}} Category:Former local government areas of Queensland Category:Darling Downs Category:Toowoomba Region Category:Local government areas of Queensland disestablished in 2008