Granite Vale, Queensland

Granite Vale is a rural locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the, Granite Vale had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

The locality is bounded by the ridge of the Hervey Range to the west. The land falls steeply from the western ridge from above sea level towards the east down to above sea level. There are a number of named peaks in the locality :

Wild Horse Mountain at above sea level
Wallaroo Hill at above sea level
Springs Hill at above sea level
Pepper Pot Mountain at above sea level
Ross River Mountain at above sea level
Gibraltar at above sea level
Peach Hollow Knobs at above sea level

There is a small section of the Pinnacles National Park in the north-west of the locality but most of the national park is in the neighbouring locality of Hervey Range. There is a small section of the Mingela State Forest in the south-east of the locality but the forest is predominantly in neighbouring Calcium.
Settlement Pocket is a neighbourhood in the centre of the locality near Settlement Creek.
Peach Hollow is a neighbourhood in the south of the locality near the Reid River.
The Springs is a natural spring.
The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation.

History

The locality was named and bounded on 27 July 1991.

Demographics

In the, Granite Vale had "no people or a very low population".
In the, Granite Vale had "no people or a very low population".

Education

There are no schools in Granite Vale. The nearest government primary school is The Willows State School in Kirwan to the north-east. The nearest government secondary school is Thuringowa State High School in Condon to the north-east.