Abingdon Downs, Queensland

Abingdon Downs is an outback rural locality in the Shire of Etheridge, Queensland, Australia. In the, Abingdon Downs had a population of 17 people.

Geography

The Einasleigh River flows through the locality from south-east to west. Its tributary, the Etheridge River, flows through the locality from south to west with their confluence in the west of the locality.
The locality takes its name from the Abingdon Downs cattle station which, being approximately, occupies most of the western part of the locality. Its homestead is located in the west of the locality with the Abingdon Downs Airport immediately to the south. As at 2016, the station was carrying 16,000 Brahman cattle.
Abingdon Downs Road enters the locality from the south and proceeds north to the Abingdon Downs homestead where it terminates.
Abingdon Downs has the following mountains :

Mount Jack, rising to above sea level
Soldiers Cap
Knob Camp
Mount Emu
Campbell Mountain
Barney Knob
Mount Departure
Tuccy Poothar

There is a small section of Bulleringa National Park in the north-east of the locality which extends into the neighbouring locality of Bulleringa. Apart from this protected area, the land use is grazing on native vegetation.

Demographics

In the, Abingdon Downs had "no people or a very low population".
In the, Abingdon Downs had a population of 17 people.

Education

There are no schools in the locality. The nearest government primary school is Georgetown State School in neighbouring Georgetown to the south, but it would be too distant for many students in Abingdon Downs for a daily commute. There are no secondary schools nearby. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school.