| Lilyvale Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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 Fields along Kingsthorpe Haden Road, 2014 | |||||||||||||||
  Lilyvale | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°22′S151°49′E / 27.367°S 151.817°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 55 (2016 census) [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 4352 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Toowoomba Region | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Condamine | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Groom | ||||||||||||||
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Lilyvale is a locality in the Toowoomba Region local government area on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland, Australia. At the 2016 Australian Census, Lilyvale recorded a population of 55. [1]
A prominent hill in the north of the area remains mostly vegetated and reaches elevations above 590 m. A second hill in the southeast rises to around 570 m. The rest of Lilyvale has been cleared for agricultural purposes.
The Downs Co-operative Dairy Association opened a cheese factory at Lilyvale in 1926. [2]
Toowoomba is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is 125 km (78 mi) west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 census was 142,163, having grown at an average annual rate of 1.45% over the previous two decades. Toowoomba is the second-most-populous inland city in the country after the nation's capital of Canberra, and hence the largest city on the Darling Downs. It is the third largest regional centre in Queensland, often referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs.
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James Henry Cecil Roberts was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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