Mona Park 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 Shire of Burdekin,

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, Australia. In the , Mona Park had a population of 97 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the south-east by the Burdekin River and to the north-west by

Barratta Creek The Barratta Creek is a creek in North Queensland, Australia. The headwaters of the creek rise below Bunkers Hill in the Leichhardt Range in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a north easterly direction. The creek continues through mostly un ...

. The land is mostly low-lying with elevations of above sea level but there is an unnamed peak risking to in the north-east of the locality. The predominant land use is growing

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...

on th lower-lying areas and there is a network of cane tramways to transport the harvested sugarcane to the Iocal sugar mills. The higher ground is used for

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. There is also some irrigated crop growing near the river.

History

The locality was officially named and bounded on 23 February 2001.

Demographics

In the , Mona Park had a population of 104 people. In the , Mona Park had a population of 97 people.

Education

There are no schools in Mona Park. The nearest government primary schools are Clare State School in neighbouring

Clare Clare may refer to: Places Antarctica * Clare Range, a mountain range in Victoria Land Australia * Clare, South Australia, a town in the Clare Valley * Clare Valley, South Australia Canada * Clare (electoral district), an electoral district * Cl ...

to the south and Airville State School in

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to the north-east. The nearest government secondary schools are

Ayr State High School Ayr State High School is a heritage-listed state secondary school at 82–90 Wickham Street, Ayr, Queensland, Ayr, Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia. It is one of three high schools in Ayr, the others being Burdekin Catholic High Scho ...

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to the north-east and Home Hill State High School in

Home Hill Home Hill is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Home Hill had a population of 2,954 people. At the delta of the Burdekin River, it is a sugarcane growing area with underground wa ...

to the east.

References

{{Shire of Burdekin Shire of Burdekin Localities in Queensland