Mount Moffatt, Queensland
Mount Moffatt is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people.
Mount Moffatt's postcode is 4465.
Geography
The locality is bounded to the north-west by the Chesterton Range, to the north and north-east by the Great Dividing Range, and to the east by the Merivale River. The locality is within the Murray-Darling basin.The terrain is quite mountainous with the following named features ;
- Mount Rugged
- Gee Gee Gap
- Mount Campbell
- Mount Moffatt
- The Observatory
- Rough Mountain
- Mount Macleay
- Mount Judy
- Mount Misery
- Mount Clift
- Mount Ogilby
- Ogilby Knob
- Mount Eddystone
There are a number of protected areas within the locality:
- part of the Carnarvon National Park is in the north of the locality
- the McLeay State Forest is in the east of the locality
- the Forfar State Forest is in the south-east of the locality
- part of the Attica State Forest is in the south-west of the locality
History
The locality was initially called Mount Moffat, but changed to Mount Moffatt on 18 October 2002. It is presumably named after the mountain Mount Moffatt within the locality.Demographics
In the, Mount Moffatt had "no people or a very low population".In the, Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people.