| Type: | suburb |
| Lochington | |
| State: | Qld |
| Coordinates: | -23.9583°N 147.4105°W |
| Pop: | 128 |
| Postcode: | 4722 |
| Area: | 4455.5 |
| Timezone: | AEST |
| Utc: | +10:00 |
| Lga: | Central Highlands Region |
| Stategov: | Gregory |
| Fedgov: | Flynn |
| Near-N: | Willows Anakie Siding |
| Near-Ne: | Gindie |
| Near-E: | Minerva |
| Near-Se: | Cona Creek |
| Near-S: | Nandowrie |
| Near-Sw: | Mantuan Downs |
| Near-W: | Alpha |
| Near-Nw: | Alpha |
Lochington is a rural locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] In the, Lochington had a population of 128 people.
Lochington is bounded to the east and south-east by the Nogoa River. The locality is within the Fitzroy River drainage basin.
The Capricorn Highway passes through the northernmost part of the locality from Anakie Siding to Willows.
The Snake Range National Park lies within the locality to the east.[2] It is 2687.7km2.
The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation.
Lochington pastoral station obtained a mail service on 1 January 1937.[3]
Lockington Provisional School opened 23 January 1961 on land that was once part of Lockington pastoral station, and became Lockington State School at a new site in January 1965. The school closed 14 December 1979 due to low student numbers, but reopened in January 1991, as Lochington State School (a new spelling of the name).
On 17 April 2020, the Queensland Government re-drew the boundaries of localities within the Central Highlands Region by replacing the locality of The Gemfields with three new localities of Rubyvale, Sapphire Central and Anakie Siding (around the towns of Rubyvale, Sapphire, and Anakie respectively). This included adjusting the boundaries of other existing localities in the Region to accommodate these changes; Lochington lost a small portion of land to the north to the new Anakie Siding, lost a strip of land from its north-eastern edge mostly to Gindie but gained a small piece of land from Minerva, with the overall effect of reducing the area of the locality from NaNkm2.[4] [5] [6] As a consequence of these changes, the boundary between Lochington and Minerva/Gindie more closely follows the course of the Nogoa River.
In the, Lochington's population was deemed to be too low to be reported separately and was combined with neighbouring Willows which had a reported population of 308 people.
At the, Lochington had a population of 57 people.
In the, Lochington had a population of 128 people.
Lochington State School is a government co-educational primary (P-7) school at the Lochington pastoral homestead off the Glenlee Road (-23.9435°N 147.5253°W). In 2013, the school had 3 students (from the same family) and 1 teacher.[7] [8] [9] In 2016, enrolment was 10, in 2017, eight, and in 2018, seven.[10] In 2021, enrolment was six, including three students in their Prep year.[11]