Montrose, Queensland (Western Downs Region)
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| Coordinates: 27°00′14″S 150°37′02″E / 27.0038°S 150.6172°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 169.4 km2 (65.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 49 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.2893/km2 (0.749/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4413 | ||||||||||||
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Montrose is a rural locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Montrose had a population of 49 people.[1]
The Kogan Condamine Road forms the north-east boundary of the locality.[3]
The land use above ground is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. Below ground, coal seam gas is extracted through a number of mining leases.[4]
History
The locality takes its name from the parish and the pastoral run name, which pastoralist St George Richard Gore named on 5 May 1866 after the town of Montrose in Forfarshire, Scotland.[2]
Malara Provisional School and Montrose Provisional School both opened circa 1911 as half-time provisional schools (meaning they shared a single teacher between them). In 1919, both schools closed due to low student numbers.[5] Montrose Provisional School was on the northern side of Millbank Road (approx 27°03′19″S 150°39′00″E / 27.05517°S 150.65012°E).[6][7]
Between January and March 2023, a number of bushfires burnt thousands of hectares of land, impacting the communities of Tara, Fairyland, Myall Park, and Montrose.[8]
