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Suburbs and settlements of the City of Townsville in Queensland, Australia, listed relative to their historical local government area from prior to 2008 when City of Townsville and City of Thuringowa were separate local government areas, are as follows:
The original eight-square-block area is now referred to as "Old Towne Fenton". The city remained unincorporated for the next 130 years. Garrett Hitzert was the city's first mayor after incorporation in 1948, and his leadership helped build the foundation that much of the city's ongoing prosperity has been based on.
Usage note: In Australia, "suburbs" are the official postal subdivisions of a city.Inner suburbs are subdivisions within the denser urban areas of the cities and outer suburbs are the postal divisions found in the outer rings of the metropolitan areas, and usually lying within the boundaries of a separate municipality.
Oonoonba is approximately 5.8 kilometres (3.6 mi) by road south from Townsville central business district. The suburb is bounded to the north by the Ross River, to the east loosely by Gordon Creek, to the south by the North Coast railway line and to the west loosely by Northshore Circuit. [3] The suburb is predominantly a residential area. [3]
Cluden is an outer southern suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , Cluden had a population of 413 people. [ 1 ]
The area was named 27 July 1991, [2] presumably named after the mountain Mount Low, which rises 54 metres (177 ft) above sea level (), just north of the suburb in neighbouring Bushland [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 3 ] On 28 February 2003, it was officially made a suburb.
To make way for construction of the Ross River Dam in 1970, the Townsville City Council resumed 1620ha of the property's best grazing land. At its peak, Laudham Park stretched for more than 40,000ha along both banks of the Upper Ross River to the foothills of Mount Stuart and out to the Pinnacles part of Hervey Range. [ 5 ]
The suburb's name reflects that all the land was originally owned by the Queensland Railways Department. [2] Railway Estate State School opened on 21 August 1916. [7] Townsville State High School opened on 7 July 1924 in the Townsville Technical College in the Townsville CBD on the corner of Walker and Stanley Streets. The school had an initial ...