Fort Grey is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far North West New South Wales./ Map of the County of Poole : Western Division located at .
Geography The geography of Fort Grey is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country but includes Lake Pinaroo.
The parish is to the west of the Silver City Highway and lies entirely within the Sturt National Park.Olive Downs campground.
The Queensland-New South Wales border forms the northern boundary of the parish, which is marked by The Dingo Fence.Sturt National Park, Outback NSW. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert). (direct: Final Revised Paper) The County is barely inhabited with a population density of less than 1 person per 150 km² and the landscape is a flat arid scrubland.
History The Parish is on the traditional lands of the WandruwandhaAboriginal Heritage Corner Country History & Heritage . Aboriginal peoples.David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
Charles Sturt passed by the parish during 1845,Sturt's Central Australian Expedition and camped in the Fort Grey during 1845. Alan Moorehead described Sturt expedition in his novel Cooper's Creek.
In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east,The Burke and Wills Expedition through what is now the Pindera Aboriginal Area.NSW National Parks and Wildlife service, Draft Plan of Management Sturt National Park, (2017) p 22.
Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s, and the miners were soon followed by pastoralists.
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