2,112 rural lots across 31 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.
Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.
How the 2,112 rural lots across Douglas Shire 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 Douglas Shire.
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 Douglas Shire 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 Douglas Shire.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Miallo 4873 | 236 |
| Bonnie Doon 4873 | 228 |
| Upper Daintree 4873 | 205 |
| Craiglie 4877 | 178 |
| Cassowary 4873 | 156 |
| Stewart Creek Valley 4873 | 122 |
| Mossman 4873 | 119 |
| Mowbray 4877 | 98 |
| Shannonvale 4873 | 83 |
| Killaloe 4877 | 82 |
| Lower Daintree 4873 | 79 |
| Whyanbeel 4873 | 74 |
| Bamboo 4873 | 71 |
| Newell 4873 | 69 |
| Daintree 4873 | 52 |
| Wonga Beach 4873 | 48 |
| Rocky Point 4873 | 40 |
| Forest Creek 4873 | 36 |
| Finlayvale 4873 | 32 |
| Mossman Gorge 4873 | 31 |
| Port Douglas 4877 | 16 |
| Degarra 4895 | 15 |
| Cow Bay 4873 | 10 |
| Kimberley 4873 | 7 |
| Cooya Beach 4873 | 4 |
| Diwan 4873 | 3 |
| Oak Beach 4877 | 2 |
| Dagmar 4873 | 1 |
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 2,112 rural lots in Douglas Shire, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and 3% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Cropping.
Rural lots in Douglas Shire average 2,626 mm annual rainfall and about 8 days above 35°C a year, in the tropical climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Douglas Shire sit inside a statutory water plan area (Wet Tropics), and 80% 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.