Mount Hutton, Queensland

Mount Hutton
Queensland
Mount Hutton is located in Queensland
Mount Hutton
Mount Hutton
Coordinates25°54′32″S 148°20′48″E / 25.9088°S 148.3466°E / -25.9088; 148.3466 (Mount Hutton (centre of locality))
Population32 (2021 census)[1]
 • Density0.0819/km2 (0.212/sq mi)
Postcode(s)4454
Area390.9 km2 (150.9 sq mi)
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10:00)
Location
LGA(s)Maranoa Region
State electorate(s)Warrego
Federal division(s)Maranoa
Suburbs around Mount Hutton:
Womblebank Hutton Creek Hutton Creek
Kilmorey Falls Mount Hutton Injune
Kilmorey Falls Cornwall Gunnewin

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]

Geography

The locality lies east of the Great Dividing Range with the eponymous mountain, Mount Hutton, in the north-east of the locality (25°51′06″S 148°20′23″E / 25.8517°S 148.3398°E / -25.8517; 148.3398 (Mount Hutton)) rising to 940 metres (3,080 ft) above sea level.[3][4][5]

The land use is grazing on native vegetation.[5]

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 on circa 1924.[11]

Demographics

In the 2016 census, Mount Hutton had a population of 34 people.[12]

In the 2021 census, Mount Hutton had a population of 32 people.[1]

Education

There are no schools in Mount Hutton. The nearest government school is Injune State School in neighbouring Injune to the east which provides primary and secondary schooling to Year 10. There are no schools providing schooling to Year 12 nearby; the options are distance education and boarding school.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Hutton (SAL)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 February 2023. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Mount Hutton – locality in Maranoa Region (entry 47440)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Mountain peaks and capes - Queensland". Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government. 12 November 2020. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Mount Hutton – mountain in Maranoa Region (entry 16547)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  6. ^ "BRISBANE NEWS". Queensland Times. Vol. LVII, no. 9551. Queensland, Australia. 26 May 1916. p. 5 (DAILY.). Retrieved 9 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Metropolitan Notes". The Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts. Vol. XXXVII, no. 1272. Queensland, Australia. 3 June 1916. p. 6. Retrieved 9 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Struck Water". The Week. Vol. LXXXVII, no. 2, 248. Queensland, Australia. 24 January 1919. p. 17. Retrieved 9 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ Johnson, Murray David (24 October 2002), Honour denied : a study of soldier settlement in Queensland, 1916-1929, The University of Queensland, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, pp. 193–207, retrieved 9 December 2023
  10. ^ "Mount Hutton Land Scheme Soldier Settlement". Monument Australia. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  11. ^ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  12. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Hutton (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018. Edit this at Wikidata
  13. ^ "Layers: Locality; Schools and school catchments". Queensland Globe. Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 19 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2023.