peri-urban
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locality
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* Locality (linguistics)
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in the
City of Townsville
The City of Townsville is a local government area (LGA) located in North Queensland, Australia. It encompasses the city of Townsville, together with the surrounding rural areas. To the south are the communities of Alligator Creek, Woodstock a ...
,
Queensland
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, Australia. In the , Gumlow had a population of 142 people.
Geography
The ''
Bohle River
The Bohle River is a river in North Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The headwaters of the river rise in the Hervey Range south of and flows north along the coastal plain west of Lake Ross and then north, parallel with Ross River ...
'' forms most of the eastern boundary, and the ''Little Bohle River'' most of the northern.
The western part of the locality is rural in character with the land use being entirely
grazing
In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...
on native vegetation. The eastern part of the locality is adjacent to Townsville's south-western surburban sprawl and the land use is a mixture of
rural residential
A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block, acreage living, or rural residential) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held simply to bring homeowners closer to n ...
housing, intensive animal husbandry, and irrigated horticulture.
History
Condon Water Purification Plant was constructed in present-day Gumlow in 1986.
The locality was officially named and bounded on 27 July 1991.
Demographics
In the , Gumlow had a population of 167 people.
In the , Gumlow had a population of 142 people.
Economy
The locality has a
barramundi
The barramundi (''Lates calcarifer''), Asian sea bass, or giant sea perch (also known as dangri, apahap or siakap) is a species of catadromous fish in the family Latidae of the order Carangiformes. The species is widely distributed in the I ...
fish farm and also poultry-raising facilities.
There are also two
turf
Sod is the upper layer of turf that is harvested for transplanting. Turf consists of a variable thickness of a soil medium that supports a community of turfgrasses.
In British and Australian English, sod is more commonly known as ''turf'', ...
farms.
Education
There are no schools in Gumlow. The nearest government schools are Rasmussen State School in neighbouring
Rasmussen
The surname Rasmussen () is a Danish and Norwegian surname, meaning ''Rasmus' son''. It is the ninth-most-common surname in Denmark, shared by about 1.9% of the population.Kirwan, Queensland, Kirwan to the north-east. The nearest government secondary school is
Thuringowa State High School
Thuringowa State High School is a public co-educational secondary school located in the Townsville suburb of Condon, Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Queensland Department of Education, with an enrolment of 678 students and a t ...
Despite the name, the Condon Wastewater Treatment Plant is at 45 Bohle Road in Gumlow (). The facility is continuously operating and processes approx of wastewater each day with a capacity of per day. It services a population of about 22,000. The treated wastewater is mostly used for irrigation of the Townsville Golf Course or discharged into the adjacent Bohle River. Biosolids are collected and used for fertiliser.
Attractions
Barra Fun Park offers water park activities and barramundi fishing at 505 Allambie Lane ().