6,291 rural lots across 26 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.
Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.
How the 6,291 rural lots across Charters Towers Regional are classified for agricultural potential.
Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.
Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology station records.
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.
Statutory water-plan coverage across rural lots in Charters Towers Regional.
Statutory water-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Source: Queensland water plan areas and the state groundwater (bores) database.
Share of rural lots in Charters Towers Regional intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Satellite-mapped burnt-area history across rural lots — includes planned burns as well as bushfires.
Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.
From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Charters Towers Regional.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Ravenswood 4816 | 704 |
| Broughton 4820 | 585 |
| Basalt 4820 | 526 |
| Pentland 4816 | 502 |
| Seventy Mile 4820 | 484 |
| Southern Cross 4820 | 455 |
| Breddan 4820 | 454 |
| Campaspe 4820 | 328 |
| Paluma 4816 | 312 |
| Dotswood 4820 | 289 |
| Greenvale 4816 | 282 |
| Black Jack 4820 | 210 |
| Valley of Lagoons 4850 | 183 |
| Millchester 4820 | 176 |
| Mingela 4816 | 167 |
| Llanarth 4820 | 133 |
| Homestead 4816 | 106 |
| Grand Secret 4820 | 61 |
| Toll 4820 | 42 |
| Columbia 4820 | 36 |
| Mosman Park 4820 | 29 |
| Alabama Hill 4820 | 29 |
| Richmond Hill 4820 | 26 |
| Queenton 4820 | 22 |
Declared disaster events give a sense of how often this council area is affected by flood, fire, storm or drought.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 6,291 rural lots in Charters Towers Regional, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class C (pasture land). The most common land use is Grazing native vegetation.
Rural lots in Charters Towers Regional average 638 mm annual rainfall and about 48 days above 35°C a year, in the tropical climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Charters Towers Regional sit inside a statutory water plan area (Burdekin Basin), and 0% inside a groundwater management area.
Agricultural Land Class and Strategic Cropping Land come from the Queensland Agricultural Land Audit. Carbon stock is derived from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Biomass product, and vegetation cover from Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover. Land use is from the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program. Hazard, water-plan, fire-history and native-title layers come from the responsible Queensland Government agencies, and lot identity from the Queensland Digital Cadastral Database.
Rural lots are those in a planning-scheme rural zone, plus — in the parts of Queensland where no council scheme is digitised — lots mapped as agricultural or production-forestry land use.