Shire of Tingalpa

The Shire of Tingalpa was a local government area in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

The shire, administered from Mount Cotton, covered an area of 120 square miles (311 km2), and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1949.

[8] On 1 October 1925, the shire lost areas west of the Tingalpa Creek to the new City of Brisbane.

On 9 December 1948, as part of a major reorganisation of local government in South East Queensland, an Order in Council replacing ten former local government areas between the City of Brisbane and the New South Wales border with only four.

[9][10] The former ten were: The four resulting local government areas were: The Order came into effect on 10 June 1949, when the first elections were held.