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]
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.
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]
In the, Mount Moffatt had "no people or a very low population".
In the, Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people.
There are no schools in Mount Moffatt nor nearby. The options are distance education and boarding school.[16]