Cutella 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 , Cutella had a population of 45 people.

Geography

Cutella is a rural area immediately north of the town of

Kingsthorpe Kingsthorpe is a suburb and civil parish of Northampton, England. It is situated to the north of Northampton town centre and is served by the A508 and A5199 roads which join at Kingsthorpe's centre. The 2011 Census recorded the population of ...

. 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. The Sugar Loaf is a mountain in the south-west of the locality () rising to above sea level. The Kingsthorpe–Haden Road enters the locality from the south (Kingsthorpe) and exits to the north ( Yalangur / Gowrie Little Plain).

History

The locality takes its name from its railway station named on 12 May 1910 by the

Queensland Railways Department Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Queensland Rail is owned by the Queensland Government, and operates both suburban and interurban rail services in South East Queensland, as well as long-distance passenger t ...

with an Aboriginal word meaning ''

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''. The

Kingsthorpe to Haden railway line Haden Branch Railway was a branch railway line from Kingsthorpe to Goombungee and Haden in the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. Kingsthorpe is about twenty kilometres from Toowoomba on the Western railway line. The Queensland Parliamen ...

opened on 21 December 1910 with Cutella served by the Cutella railway station (approx ). The line closed on 1 May 1964.

Demographics

In the , Cutella had a population of 29 people. In the , Cutella had a population of 45 people.

Education

There are no schools in Cutella. The nearest government primary school is Kingsthorpe State School in neighbouring Kingsthorpe to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Oakey State High School in

Oakey Oakey is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. The Oakey Army Aviation Centre, Museum of Army Aviation is located at Oakey Airport. In the , the locality of Oakey had a pop ...

to the west.

References

{{Toowoomba Region Toowoomba Region Localities in Queensland