Type: | suburb |
Moy Pocket | |
State: | qld |
Coordinates: | -26.5277°N 152.743°W |
Pop: | 120 |
Postcode: | 4574 |
Area: | 18.1 |
Timezone: | AEST |
Utc: | +10:00 |
Dist1: | 34.2 |
Dir1: | SW |
Location1: | Cooroy |
Dist2: | 44.9 |
Dir2: | S |
Location2: | Gympie |
Dist3: | 55.6 |
Dir3: | NNW |
Location3: | Maleny |
Dist4: | 158 |
Dir4: | N |
Location4: | Brisbane |
Lga: | Gympie Region |
Stategov: | Gympie |
Fedgov: | Wide Bay |
Near-N: | Bollier |
Near-Ne: | Belli Park |
Near-E: | Belli Park |
Near-Se: | Gheerulla |
Near-S: | Gheerulla |
Near-Sw: | Kenilworth |
Near-W: | Brooloo |
Near-Nw: | Brooloo |
Moy Pocket is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] In the, Moy Pocket had a population of 120 people.
The locality is bounded to the north by Spiller Road. The Mary River forms the south-eastern boundary of the locality, then meanders through the centre of the locality, then becomes the north-eastern boundary of the locality.
Moy Pocket has the following mountains:[2]
Moy Pocket Road is the main route through the locality, entering from the south (Gheerulla) and exiting to the north-west (Brooloo).[6]
The land use is a mix of grazing on native vegetation and irrigated modified pastures with some rural residential housing.[7]
The locality appears to take its name from a farm operated by Peter Henry Sutton circa 1911 in the pocket of Mary River at the end of Suttons Lane in the south-east of the present locality .[8] [9] [10]
In the, Moy Pocket had a population of 115 people.
In the, Moy Pocket had a population of 120 people.
There are no schools in Moy Pocket. The nearest government primary schools are Mary Valley State College in Imbil to the north-west and Kenilworth State Community College in neighbouring Kenilworth to the south-west.[11]
The nearest government secondary schools are: