Crossroads is a rural

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...

in the

Western Downs Region Western Downs Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia. The Western Downs Regional Council manages an area of , which is slightly smaller than Switzerland, although with a population of 34,467 in June 2018, it is over 228 ti ...

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

, Australia. In the , Crossroads had a population of 130 people.

Geography

The Condamine Kogan Road traverses the locality from south-east ( Hopeland / Montrose) to south-west ( Nangram /

Wieambilla Wieambilla is a rural locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. This locality and its surroundings are extensively used for coal seam gas harvesting. In the , Wieambilla had a population of 78 people. History The locality t ...

). The Chinchilla Tara Road traverses the locality from north ( Greenswamp) to south (Wieambilla). These two roads intersect in roughly the centre of the locality and presumably provide the name for the locality. Gunbarwood is a neighbourhood (). It presumably takes its name from the Gunbarwood rural property. The land use is a mixture of dry and irrigated crops and

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...

on native vegetation.

Coal seam gas Coalbed methane (CBM or coal-bed methane), coalbed gas, coal seam gas (CSG), or coal-mine methane (CMM) is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds. In recent decades it has become an important source of energy in United States, Canada, Au ...

is extracted throughout the locality.

History

In the , Crossroads had a population of 130 people.

Education

There are no schools in Crossroads. The nearest primary and secondary schools are Chinchilla State School and Chinchilla State High School in neighbouring

Chinchilla Chinchillas are either of two species (''Chinchilla chinchilla'' and ''Chinchilla lanigera'') of crepuscular rodents of the parvorder Caviomorpha. They are slightly larger and more robust than ground squirrels, and are native to the Andes mount ...

to the north-east.

References

{{Western Downs Region Western Downs Region Localities in Queensland