Shire of Mareeba
Shire of Mareeba | |||||||||||||
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Location within Queensland | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
| Region | Far North Queensland | ||||||||||||
| Established | 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Mareeba | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Angela Toppin | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 53,491 km2 (20,653 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 22,858 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.427324/km2 (1.10676/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Website | Shire of Mareeba | ||||||||||||
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The Shire of Mareeba is a local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, covered an area of 53,491 square kilometres (20,653.0 sq mi), and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several councils in the Atherton Tableland area to become the Tablelands Region.
On 20 March 2013, Mareeba residents voted in favour of a proposal to reverse the amalgamation and to re-establish Mareeba Shire. The new Mareeba Shire was re-established on 1 January 2014.
In the 2021 census, the Shire of Mareeba had a population of 22,858 people.