8,577 rural lots across 47 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 8,577 rural lots across Mareeba 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 Mareeba 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 Mareeba 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 Mareeba Shire.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Mareeba 4880 | 1,441 |
| Dimbulah 4872 | 892 |
| Irvinebank 4887 | 607 |
| Mutchilba 4872 | 601 |
| Chillagoe 4871 | 509 |
| Paddys Green 4880 | 367 |
| Watsonville 4887 | 349 |
| Thornborough 4871 | 348 |
| Koah 4881 | 340 |
| Arriga 4880 | 337 |
| Biboohra 4880 | 328 |
| Petford 4871 | 280 |
| Julatten 4871 | 262 |
| Almaden 4871 | 247 |
| Chewko 4880 | 232 |
| Mount Molloy 4871 | 217 |
| Mount Mulligan 4871 | 196 |
| Kuranda 4881 | 136 |
| Southedge 4871 | 126 |
| Mona Mona 4881 | 80 |
| Glen Russell 4880 | 78 |
| Mount Carbine 4871 | 51 |
| Barwidgi 4872 | 51 |
| Rookwood 4871 | 50 |
| Crystalbrook 4871 | 46 |
| Gamboola 4892 | 44 |
| Wrotham 4892 | 41 |
| Desailly 4871 | 39 |
| Groganville 4892 | 32 |
| Speewah 4881 | 31 |
| Bellevue 4892 | 25 |
| Hurricane 4871 | 24 |
| Strathmore 4871 | 23 |
| Forty Mile 4872 | 23 |
| Bolwarra 4871 | 21 |
| Springfield 4871 | 19 |
| Munderra 4872 | 16 |
| Fossilbrook 4871 | 15 |
| Mount Mulgrave 4892 | 14 |
| Amber 4871 | 14 |
| Arbouin 4892 | 13 |
| Highbury 4892 | 11 |
| Nychum 4871 | 10 |
| Red River 4892 | 8 |
| Lyndside 4892 | 6 |
| Ravensworth 4892 | 3 |
| Bulleringa 4871 | 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 8,577 rural lots in Mareeba Shire, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class C (pasture land), and 16% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Grazing native vegetation.
Rural lots in Mareeba Shire average 990 mm annual rainfall and about 11 days above 35°C a year, in the tropical climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Mareeba Shire sit inside a statutory water plan area (Barron), and 13% 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.