Canpadore Parish, Yanda County in Bourke Shire is a civil parishMap of the County of Yanda, Western Division, NSW 1918. of Yanda County, a cadasteral division of New South Wales;[cartographer] C.A. Orwin, [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233873384/view Map of the County of Rankin : Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914). a Cadastral division of New South Wales.The New atlas of Australia (John Sands, 1886) map 24.Yanda County , GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES REGISTER EXTRACT./ The New atlas of Australia, (John Sands, 1886), map 24.
Geography
The Parish is in the Darling River floodplain upstream of Wilcannia, New South Wales;[cartographer] C.A. Orwin, [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233873384/view Map of the County of Rankin : Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914). a Cadastral division of New South Wales.The New atlas of Australia (John Sands, 1886) map 24. and is located at 30°46′53″S 144°49′26″E.
The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid). (direct: Final Revised Paper)
The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly wheat and sheep.
History The traditional owners of the area are the Barkindji people,Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal TribesAboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. and the first European to the area was Major Mitchells expedition.
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