Argyll, Queensland
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.jpg) Tomahawk Creek Huts: The Lodge, 2011 | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 23°16′09″S 147°31′28″E / 23.2691°S 147.5244°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 629.1 km2 (242.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 25 (2021 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.0397/km2 (0.1029/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4721 | ||||||||||||
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Argyll is a rural locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.[3] In the 2021 census, Argyll had a population of 25 people.[2]
The Clermont Rubyvale Road enters the locality from the north-east (Theresa Creek) and exits to the south-east (Rubyvale).[4]
Tomahawk Creek rises in Peak Vale to the south-west which follows into the south-west of the locality and then north through the locality, exiting to the north (the locality of Theresa Creek).[5]
Argyll has a number of mountains (from north to south):
History
On 17 May 2019, the Queensland Government decided to discontinue the locality of Mistake Creek and absorb its land into the neighbouring localities of Clermont, Laglan, Frankfield and Peak Vale and to extend Peak Vale into the Central Highlands Region by altering the boundaries of Argyll.[22][23][24][1]
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; Argyll lost its south-eastern corner to become the northern part of the new Rubyvale and the north-eastern part of the new Sapphire Central.[25][26][27]
Demographics
In the 2016 census, Argyll had a population of 31 people.[28]
In the 2021 census, Argyll had a population of 25 people.[2]
Heritage listings
Tomahawk Creek Huts is a heritage-listed site in Argyll (23°21′57″S 147°26′28″E / 23.3659°S 147.4412°E).[29]
