Adare, Queensland

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Adare
Queensland
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Adare
Coordinates 27°30′35″S152°17′46″E / 27.5097°S 152.2961°E / -27.5097; 152.2961 (Adare (centre of locality)) Coordinates: 27°30′35″S152°17′46″E / 27.5097°S 152.2961°E / -27.5097; 152.2961 (Adare (centre of locality))
Population873 (2016 census) [1]
 • Density22.27/km2 (57.68/sq mi)
Postcode(s) 4343
Area39.2 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
Time zone AEST (UTC+10:00)
Location
LGA(s) Lockyer Valley Region
State electorate(s) Lockyer
Federal division(s) Wright
Suburbs around Adare:
Vinegar Hill Vinegar Hill Spring Creek
Ringwood Adare Lake Clarendon
Gatton Gatton Gatton

Adare is a rural locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2016 census, Adare had a population of 873 people. [1]

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Geography

The Warrego Highway forms most of the locality's southern boundary. The Gatton-Esk Road forms most of its eastern boundary. Lockyer Creek forms the south-eastern boundary. [3]

Adare is predominantly freeland farming land, a mix of crops and grazing; the land ranges from 100-150 metres above sea level. In the northern tip of the locality is an unnamed peak of 250 metres which is a small part of the Lockyer National Park which is predominantly located in the adjacent locality of Vinegar Hill. Redbank Creek rises in Vinegar Hill and flows from the north to the south-east through Adare entering Lockyer Creek immediately before Jordan Weir. [3]

Holcomb is a neighbourhood in the centre of the locality near the crossing of Adare Road over Redbank Creek ( 27°31′00″S152°17′00″E / 27.5166°S 152.2833°E / -27.5166; 152.2833 (Holcomb) ). [4] [3]

History

The locality is named after one of the Lockyer Valley's largest cattle properties of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had its homestead approximately seven kilometres north of Gatton on Adare Road. Its original homestead was moved from a site on the edge of Lake Clarendon in 1896 by William Drayton Armstrong, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and the Speaker from 1911 to 1915. [5]

Clarendon Provisional School opened on circa 1882. In 1903 it was renamed Springdale Provisional School. It became Springdale State School on 1 January 1909, but closed later in 1909. Its precise location is not known but it was in the vicinity of the intersection of (present day) Adare, Lake Clarendon and Spring Creek. [6]

In the 2016 census, Adare had a population of 873 people. [1]

Education

There are no schools in Adare. The nearest primary schools are Gatton State School in neighbouring Gatton to the south and Lake Clarendon State School in neighbouring Lake Clarendon to the east. The nearest secondary school is Lockyer District State High School in Gatton. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Adare (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Adare – locality in Lockyer Valley Region (entry 44942)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland . Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  4. ↑ "Holcomb – locality unbounded in Lockyer Valley Regional (entry 15992)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  5. ↑ "LATER HOME FOR LORD HUNTINGFIELD". Sunday Mail . No. 567. Queensland, Australia. 8 April 1934. p. 1. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN   978-1-921171-26-0
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