Mount Hutton, Queensland
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| Coordinates: 25°54′32″S 148°20′48″E / 25.9088°S 148.3466°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 390.9 km2 (150.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 32 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.0819/km2 (0.212/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4454 | ||||||||||||
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Mount Hutton is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Mount Hutton had a population of 32 people.[1]
History
In May 1916, the Queensland Government purchased the leasehold of the Mount Hutton pastoral property for £73,500, which included 10,243 cattle and 260 horses. The government's intention was to subdivide the property for closer settlement.[6][7]
Following World War I in 1919, the subdivision of blocks occurred with about half being available to soldier settlers and others being open to any purchasers.[8] The open blocks attracted little interest but returned soldiers took up the soldier settlement blocks. Like many other soldier settlements in Queensland, the scheme was mostly a failure. The land was not suitable for the government's proposed use for dairying and crop growing due to receiving lower levels of rainfall than claimed, the soldiers had insufficient capital to develop their land, the blocks of land were too small to provide the income needed by a family, there was insufficient timber available for building houses, and so on.[9][10]
Mount Hutton East Provisional School opened on 13 February 1922 and closed circa 1924.[11]
