Selwyn County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales

Cadastral divisions of New South Wales

Lands administrative divisions of New South Wales refers to the 141 counties within the Australian state of New South Wales, which are further subdivided into 7,459 parishes. There are also three Land Divisions, around 100 Land Districts, and several other types of districts as well as land boards...

. It is located to the east of the Murray River

Murray River

The Murray River is Australia's longest river. At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between New South Wales and Victoria as it...

, with part of the Tumut River

Tumut River

The Tumut River is a river in New South Wales, Australia.The Tumut River rises on the northern face of Mount Jagungal in the Snowy Mountains of southern New South Wales. It flows about 145km before joining the Murrumbidgee River, at Darbalara near the town of Gundagai...

 as its boundary to the north-east. It includes Mount Kosciusko, the highest mountain in Australia.

Selwyn County was named in honour of geologist Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn

Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn

Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, CMG, LL.D, FRS, FGS was a British geologist, director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1852–1869, director of Geological Survey of Canada 1869–1894 and President of the Royal Society of Canada 1895-1896.-Early life:Selwyn was born in Kilmington, Somerset,...

 (1824-1902).

Parishes within this county

A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:

Parish	LGA	Coordinates
Beaumont	Tumbarumba Shire	35°45′54"S 148°10′04"E
Boganyera	Tumbarumba Shire	35°54′54"S 147°57′04"E
Bringenbrong	Tumbarumba Shire	36°07′54"S 148°03′04"E
Buccleuch	Tumbarumba Shire	35°44′54"S 148°18′04"E
Buddong	Tumut Shire	35°38′54"S 148°16′04"E
Burra Burra, New South Wales Burra is an Australian district and parish of rural smallholdings lying 20 kilometres to the south of Queanbeyan, New South Wales in Palerang Council, postcode 2620. In 2006, Burra had a population of 480 people...	Tumbarumba Shire	35°51′54"S 148°03′04"E
Clear Hill	Tumbarumba Shire	36°04′54"S 148°26′04"E
Cowra Cowra, New South Wales Cowra is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia in the Cowra Shire. It is located on the Mid-Western Highway, 317 kilometres west of Sydney on the banks of the Lachlan River at an altitude of 310 metres above sea level. At the 2006 census Cowra had a population of 8,430...	Tumbarumba Shire	35°55′54"S 148°17′04"E
Craven	Tumbarumba Shire	35°40′54"S 147°50′04"E
Dargals	Tumbarumba Shire	36°09′54"S 148°18′04"E
Geehi	Tumbarumba Shire	36°19′54"S 148°06′04"E
Glenken	Tumbarumba Shire	35°55′54"S 147°48′04"E
Glenroy Glenroy, New South Wales Glenroy is a suburb of the city of Albury, New South Wales, located north-west of the Albury Central Business District and west of Lavington At the 2006 census, Glenroy had a population of 2659, although the area covered in the Census is considerably different to the actual area of the...	Tumbarumba Shire	35°44′54"S 147°51′04"E
Greg Greg	Tumbarumba Shire	36°03′54"S 148°03′04"E
Gungartan	Tumbarumba Shire	36°13′54"S 148°22′04"E
Hay Hay, New South Wales Hay is a town in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales , Australia.  It is the administrative centre of Hay Shire Local Government Area and the centre of a prosperous and productive agricultural district on the wide Hay Plains....	Tumbarumba Shire	35°51′54"S 148°09′04"E
Hume	Tumbarumba Shire	36°19′54"S 148°11′04"E
Indi	Tumbarumba Shire	36°13′54"S 148°04′04"E
Jagumba	Tumbarumba Shire	35°58′54"S 148°17′04"E
Jagungal	Tumbarumba Shire	36°10′54"S 148°23′04"E
Jingellic East	Tumbarumba Shire	35°52′54"S 147°45′04"E
Khancoban Khancoban, New South Wales Khancoban is a small town in Tumbarumba Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The town is located from the state capital, Sydney and from the state border with Victoria, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, near the upper reaches of the Murray River...	Tumbarumba Shire	36°10′54"S 148°11′04"E
King	Tumbarumba Shire	35°44′54"S 148°05′04"E
Kosciusko	Tumbarumba Shire	36°30′54"S 148°12′04"E
Lea	Tumbarumba Shire	36°07′54"S 148°10′04"E
Manjar	Tumbarumba Shire	35°51′54"S 148°19′04"E
Mannus Mannus, New South Wales Mannus is a small rural community in the south east part of the Riverina. It is situated about 9 kilometres west from Tumbarumba and 11 kilometres east from Munderoo....	Tumbarumba Shire	35°49′54"S 147°57′04"E
Maragle	Tumbarumba Shire	35°53′54"S 148°09′04"E
Mate	Tumbarumba Shire	35°39′54"S 147°53′04"E
Munderoo Munderoo, New South Wales Munderoo is a rural community in the south east part of the Riverina. It is situated about 11 kilometres west from Mannus and 16 kilometres north from Ournie...	Tumbarumba Shire	35°49′54"S 147°51′04"E
Munyang	Tumbarumba Shire	36°12′54"S 148°27′04"E
Murray	Tumbarumba Shire	36°12′54"S 148°16′04"E
Nurenmerenmong	Tumbarumba Shire	35°49′54"S 148°15′04"E
Ournie Ournie, New South Wales Ournie is a rural community in the far south east part of the Riverina and situated about 15 kilometres north west from Welaregang and 20 kilometres south from Munderoo...	Tumbarumba Shire	35°56′54"S 147°52′04"E
Round Hill	Tumbarumba Shire	35°58′54"S 148°23′04"E
Scott	Tumbarumba Shire	35°59′54"S 148°30′04"E
Selwyn	Tumut Shire	35°49′54"S 148°24′04"E
Table Top	Tumut Shire	35°55′54"S 148°24′04"E
Tooma Tooma, New South Wales Tooma is a village community in the eastern part of the Riverina and situated about 11 kilometres east from Welaregang and 34 kilometres south from Tumbarumba.Tooma is in the valley of the Tooma River, not far from where it joins the Murray River....	Tumbarumba Shire	35°55′54"S 148°04′04"E
Tougaroo	Tumbarumba Shire	36°33′54"S 148°13′04"E
Tumbarumba Tumbarumba, New South Wales Tumbarumba is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, about 500 km southwest of Sydney. Tumbarumba is located within the Riverina region and more specifically on the South West Slopes at the western edge of the Snowy Mountains. At the 2006 Census of Population and Housing, people lived...	Tumbarumba Shire	35°51′54"S 148°02′04"E
Twynam	Tumbarumba Shire	36°41′54"S 148°13′04"E
Victoria	Tumbarumba Shire	36°25′54"S 148°08′04"E
Wallace	Tumbarumba Shire	35°47′54"S 148°19′04"E
Welaregang Welaregang, New South Wales Welaregang is a rural community in the far south east part of the Riverina and situated about 11 kilometres south west from Tooma and 15 kilometres south east from Ournie. At the 2006 census, Welaregang had a population of 162....	Tumbarumba Shire	35°58′54"S 147°56′04"E
Welumba	Tumbarumba Shire	35°58′54"S 148°08′04"E
Yellowin	Tumut Shire	35°27′54"S 148°14′04"E
Youngal	Tumbarumba Shire	36°13′54"S 148°10′04"E