Lemontree is a rural

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in the

Toowoomba Region The Toowoomba Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area (LGA) on the border of Darling Downs and South East Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, the LGA was preceded by several other local go ...

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, Australia. In the , Lemontree had a population of 27 people.

Geography

The

Condamine River The Condamine River, part of the Balonne catchment that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin, drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, an area of sub-coastal southern Queensland, Australia. The river is approximately 500 kilometres (3 ...

enters the locality from the east ( Yandilla /

Pampas The Pampas (; from Quechua 'plain'), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all o ...

) and forms the north-eastern boundary of the locality, before exiting to the north (

Kurrowah Kurrowah is a heritage-listed mansion at 218 Gladstone Road, Dutton Park, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Lange Leopold Powell and built from 1915 to 1916. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 Ju ...

/ Condamine Plains).

Millmerran–Cecil Plains Road There are two state-controlled roads linking and in the Toowoomba region of Queensland, Australia. They are Millmerran–Cecil Plains Road, which runs to the west of the Condamine River, and Pampas–Horrane Road, which runs east of the riv ...

enters the locality from the south (

Millmerran Millmerran , known as Domville between 1 June 1889 and 16 November 1894, is a town and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Millmerran had a population of 1,545 p ...

) and forms the south-western boundary of the lcoality before exiting to the west ( Turallin / Kurrowah). The land use is predominantly crop growing with some

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.

History

The name Lemontree comes from a pastoral run in the district, whose name in turn came from the Lemon Tree Lagoon, a place where lemons grew. Lemontree was part of the original vast Yandilla

station Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle statio ...

established by the Gore brothers, St. George Richard Gore and Ralph Thomas Gore, in 1841. It was opened for settlement under the Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1876 when the Gore lease expired in 1887. In 1879, it was part of the Jondaryan Division which became the Shire of Jondaryan in 1903. In 1913, along with other lands in and around the town of

, it became part of the Shire of Millmerran. In 2008, the area was amalgamated into the

.Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 of Queensland

Demographics

In the , Lemontree had a population of 45 people. In the , Lemontree had a population of 27 people.

Education

There are no schools in Lemontree. The nearest government primary schools are Millmerran State School in neighbouring

to the south and Brookstead State School in Brookstead to the north-east. The nearest government secondary schools are Millmerran State School (to Year 10) and Pittsworth State High School (to Year 12) in Pittsworth to the north-east.

References

External links

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