Westgrove is a rural

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in the

Maranoa Region Maranoa Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area in South West Queensland, Australia. The town of Roma, Queensland, Roma is the administrative headquarters of the region. In the , the Maranoa Region had a population of 1 ...

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, Australia. In the , Westgrove had a population of 4 people.

Geography

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 ...

bounds the locality to the west. Sardine Creek rises in the north of the locality and flows south and then east, exiting the locality to Upper Dawson where it becomes a tributary of the Dawson River. Most of the southern part of the locality is within the Forrest State Forest. Apart from this protected area, the surface 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. There are gas fields belong the surface and gas is actively being extracted from within the locality.

History

The locality takes its name from an early pastoral run in the district which appears on the 1870s Gregory's Map of Queensland. Yellowbank Junction State School opened on 29 January 1991 and closed on 14 December 2001. It was probably associated with the development of the Yellowbank Gas Plant.

Demographics

In the , Westgrove had "no people or a very low population". In the , Westgrove had a population of 4 people.

Education

There are no schools in Westgrove. The nearest government primary and secondary school is Injune State School (to Year 10) in

Injune Injune is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Injune had a population of 429 people. Geography Injune is a small town in South West Queensland. It located on the Carnarvon Highway, ...

to the south. There are no nearby schools offering education to Year 12; the options are

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and boarding school.

References

{{Maranoa Region Maranoa Region Localities in Queensland