Nutgrove is a rural

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in the Toowoomba Region,

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. In the Nutgrove had a population of 32 people.

History

The

Cooyar railway line The Cooyar railway line was a branch line in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The small town of Cooyar is about halfway to Kingaroy in the South Burnett Region. A plan to connect Kingaroy to the south via Cooyar did not ev ...

opened to Nutgrove on 28 April 1913 with the locality served by the Nutgrove railway station, located immediately to the north of Douglas Nutgrove Road (), now in Wutul. Nutgrove State School opened on 20 June 1923 and closed on 1947. It was located at 5779 Dalby Cooyar Road (). In the Nutgrove had a population of 32 people.

Road infrastructure

The

Oakey–Cooyar Road Oakey–Cooyar Road is a continuous road route in the Darling Downs and Toowoomba regions of Queensland, Australia. The entire route is signed as State Route 68. It is a state-controlled part regional and part district road (number 417). It ...

runs through from south to north-east. The

Dalby–Cooyar Road The roads that join the towns of , and form a triangle that encloses some of the most fertile land on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. These roads are the Warrego Highway, Oakey–Cooyar Road and Dalby–Cooyar Road. Several of th ...

enters from the west and joins Oakey–Cooyar Road.

Heritage listings

Nutgrove has a number of

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many ...

sites, including: * Narko-Nutgrove Road from Highgrove to Nutgrove ():

Muntapa Tunnel Muntapa Tunnel is a heritage-listed tunnel from Narko-Nutgrove Road, Highgrove through to Nutgrove, both in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Railways and built from 1910 to 1913 by Queensland Railways ...

Economy

There are a number of homesteads in the locality: * Bowriver () * Highgrove ()

Education

There are no schools in Nutgrove. The nearest primary school is Cooyar State School in Cooyar to the north-east. The nearest secondary school is Quinalow State School (offering schooling up to Year 10) in

Quinalow Quinalow is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Quinalow had a population of 173 people. Geography The town is located on Darling Downs in the north of the locality and on the bank ...

to the south-west with the more distant Oakey State High School in

Oakey Oakey is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. The Museum of Army Aviation is located at Oakey Airport. Geography The town is situated on the eastern side of the Darling Downs and the Toowoomba Region lo ...

to the south offering schooling up to Year 12.

References

{{Toowoomba Region Toowoomba Region Localities in Queensland