Highgrove 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 , Highgrove had a population of 28 people.

Geography

The ridgeline of the

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughl ...

roughly bounds the locality to the north and east. The locality is within the Murray-Darling drainage basin within the catchment of the Condaimne River. The Oakey–Cooyar Road traverses the locality entering from the south-east (

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) and exiting to the north ( Nutgrove). The predominant land use is

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 with some crop growing in the south of the locality.

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 from

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 Cooyar in 1913. The

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 Railway ...

was a concrete railway tunnel located on the line passing through the Great Dividing Range at the north-western corner of the locality connecting it to neighbouring Nutgrove to the north. The line closed through Highgrove on 1 May 1964.

Demographics

In the , Highgrove had a population of 29 people. In the , Highgrove had a population of 28 people.

Heritage listings

Highgrove has a number of

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

Economy

There are a number of homesteads in the locality: * Bulgana () * Burndale () * Datarra Hills () * Glazels () * Rocky Basin () * Springview ()

Education

There are no schools in Highgrove. The nearest government primary schools are: * Kulpi State School in Kulpi to the south-west *

Quinalow State School Quinalow is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Quinalow had a population of 205 people. Geography The town is located on Darling Downs in the north of the locality and on the bank ...

in Quinalow to the west * Cooyar State School in Cooyar to the north-east * Haden State State School in Haden to the south-east. The nearest government secondary schools are Quinalow State School (to Year 10) in Quinalow and

Oakey State High School 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 south. There is also a Catholic primary school in Oakey.

References

{{Toowoomba Region Toowoomba Region Localities in Queensland