Kelso is a
suburb 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 an ...
,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
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, established_title = Before federation
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, Australia.
In the , Kelso had a population of 10,599 people.
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Geography
Kelso is the last of three suburbs along Riverway Drive and is the only suburb on Riverway Drive that has homes backing onto the '' Ross River''.
Garbutt–Upper Ross Road (Riverway Drive) runs from north to south inside the eastern boundary.
History
Kelso was named after Scottish immigrants, and early settlers, Mary and James Kelso, who had cattle property in 1878 called Laudham Park on Five Head Creek. To make way for construction of the Ross River Dam
The Ross River Dam is a rock and earthfill-filled embankment dam across the Ross River, located between Kelso and Mount Stuart in the City of Townsville in northern Queensland, Australia. Built initially for flood control, Lake Ross, the im ...
in 1970, the Townsville City Council resumed 1620ha of the property's best grazing land. At its peak, Laudham Park stretched for more than 40,000ha along both banks of the Upper Ross River to the foothills of Mount Stuart
Mount Stuart is a mountain in the Cascade Range, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the second highest non-volcanic peak in the state, after Bonanza Peak and seventh-highest overall. Mount Stuart is the highest peak in the Stuart Range, a ...
and out to the Pinnacles part of Hervey Range. Most of what was Laudham Park is today under water due to the construction of the dam and the rest is now the suburb of Kelso. The first residential blocks started selling back in 1966.
Kelso State School, Prep to Year 6, opened in 1963.
Demographics
In the , Kelso had a population of 10,538 people.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 12.0% of the population.
82.4% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 2.2% and New Zealand 2.2%.
88.4% of people spoke only English at home.
The most common responses for religion were No Religion 29.1%, Catholic 25.9% and Anglican 17.2%.
Education
Kelso State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Yvette Street ().Thuringowa State High School
Thuringowa State High School is a high school located in Australia and specifically situated in the City of Townsville, North Queensland in the suburb of Condon.
Thuringowa High opened in 1987 with year 8, 9 and 11 students, and offers program ...
in Condon to the north.
Transportation
Kelso is connected to Townsville by the Kinetic Group
Kinetic Group (formerly known as AATS Group) is an Australian-based multinational bus company that wholly owns a number of bus operations in Australia and New Zealand, including the SkyBus business, which operates bus services to a number of ...
's bus services.
References
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{{Suburbs of Townsville
Suburbs of Townsville