Mount Moffatt, Queensland Explained

Type:suburb
Mount Moffatt
State:qld
Coordinates:-25.1622°N 147.8661°W
Pop:14
Postcode:4465[1]
Area:2120.0
Timezone:AEST
Utc:+10:00
Lga:Maranoa Region
Stategov:Warrego
Fedgov:Maranoa
Near-N:Carnarvon Park
Near-Ne:Rewan
Near-E:Carnarvon Park
Near-Se:Mount Howe
Near-S:Womblebank
Near-Sw:Upper Warrego
Near-W:Upper Warrego
Near-Nw:Upper Warrego

Mount Moffatt is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the, Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people.

Mount Moffatt's postcode is 4465.[1]

Geography

The locality is bounded to the north-west by the Chesterton Range, to the north and north-east by the Great Dividing Range, and to the east by the Merivale River.

The terrain is quite mountainous with the following named features (from north to south);

The Maranoa River rises in the locality with the west branch rising in the north of the locality and the east branch rising in the north-east of the locality . The two branches of the river flow south with their confluence in the south of the locality .

There are a number of protected areas within the locality:

Apart from the protected areas, the land use is grazing on native vegetation.

History

The locality was initially called Mount Moffat, but changed to Mount Moffatt on 18 October 2002. It is presumably named after the mountain Mount Moffatt within the locality.[2]

Demographics

In the, Mount Moffatt had "no people or a very low population".

In the, Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people.

Education

There are no schools in Mount Moffatt nor nearby. The options are distance education and boarding school.[16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mount Moffatt. Australia Post. 10 December 2023. 2 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231002070014/https://auspost.com.au/postcode/mount-moffatt. live.
  2. 2 November 2019.
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  4. Web site: 12 November 2020 . Mountain peaks and capes - Queensland . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201125215033/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/geographic-features-queensland-series/resource/06ff12a9-862e-4aac-bf9d-693f0a63b4c9 . 25 November 2020 . 25 November 2020 . Queensland Open Data . Queensland Government.
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  16. Web site: Layers: Locality; Schools and school catchments . 10 December 2023 . Queensland Globe . . 19 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171219175447/https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ . live .