Domville is a rural
locality
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in the
Toowoomba Region
The Toowoomba Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs part of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by several previous local government areas with histories extending back to the early 1900s and beyo ...
,
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, about south of
Milmerran.
Millmerran was known as Domville for five years between 1 June 1889 and 16 November 1894.
[Frew, Joan (1981) ''Queensland Post Offices 1842-1980 and Receiving Offices 1869-1927'', p. 346. Fortitude Valley, Queensland: published by the author, ]
In the , Domville had a population of 0 people.
History
Domville's name is from Thomas John Domville Taylor (1817-1889), whose sketch of Mount Domville is held by the
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...
. He was also the artist of a rare sketch showing an historic event, the 1843
Battle of One Tree Hill
The Battle of One Tree Hill was one of a series of conflicts that took place between European settlers and a group of men of the Jagera and other Aboriginal groups in the Darling Downs area in the colony of Queensland in the 1840s, as part of ...
.
Geography
The north and eastern part of the locality is farmland with the
Commodore Mine in the south-west extending into neighbouring
Clontarf. It is part of the
Balonne-
Condamine drainage basin.
The
Millmerran–Inglewood Road
Millmerran–Inglewood Road is a continuous road route in the Toowoomba and Goondiwindi regions of Queensland, Australia. The road is signed as State Route 82. Millmerran–Inglewood Road (number 337) is a state-controlled regional road.
Ro ...
(
State Route 82) forms the north-western boundary.
References
{{Toowoomba Region
Toowoomba Region
Localities in Queensland