Rifle Range, Queensland

Rifle Range is a locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2016 census, Rifle Range had a population of 186 people.[1]

Rifle Range
Somerset Region, Queensland
Irrigated farming, Rifle Range, 2019
Rifle Range
Coordinates27.4566°S 152.5344°E / -27.4566; 152.5344
Population186 (2016 census)[1]
 • Density19.79/km2 (51.2/sq mi)
Postcode(s)4311
Area9.4 km2 (3.6 sq mi)
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10:00)
Location
LGA(s)Somerset Region
State electorate(s)Lockyer
Federal Division(s)Blair
Suburbs around Rifle Range:
Clarendon Clarendon Lowood
Mount Tarampa Rifle Range Lowood
Mount Tarampa Brightview Lowood

Geography

Lockyer Creek marks the suburbs northern and western boundary.[3]

There is irrigated cropping in areas close to the creek with grazing on native vegetation in the middle of the locality. The southern part of the locality is most rural residential.[3]

Rifle Range Road provides access into the locality from neighbouring Lowood.[3]

History
Map of Lowood Rifle Range (shaded), boundary roads are Clarendon Road (north), Wyatts Road (west), Rifle Range Road (south west), Forest Hill Fernvale Road (south) and Reinbotts Road (east), 1904.

A rifle range was first established near Lowood in 1886.[4] In January 1905 the Queensland Government sold a parcel of land for £260 to establish a new rifle range near Lowood.[5] The south-east boundary of the rifle range is the present-day south-eastern boundary of the locality of Rifle Range (Plan CC58 Lot 461, 27.455°S 152.55°E / -27.455; 152.55 (Lowood rifle range)) and presumably the origin of its name.[6][3] The Lowood rifle range closed in 1953.[7]

Education

There are no schools in Rifle Range. The nearest primary schools are in neighbouring Clarendon, Lowood and Mount Tarampa. The nearest secondary school is in Lowood.[3]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Rifle Range (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. "Rifle Range – locality in Somerset Region (entry 44911)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  3. "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  4. "TOWN TALK". Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser. XXVIII (3819). Queensland, Australia. 30 November 1886. p. 5. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "RIFLE RANGE AT LOWOOD". Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser. XLVI (6855). Queensland, Australia. 12 January 1905. p. 9. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "ACQUISITION OF A SITE FOR A RIFLE RANGE AT LOWOOD, QUEENSLAND". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (74). Australia. 17 December 1904. p. 1304. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "History". Ipswich and District Rifle Club. 2019. Archived from the original on 25 August 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.


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