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South West Queensland

Murweh Shire

3,735 rural lots across 18 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

3,735
Rural lots
4.10 M ha
Rural land
Pasture land
Dominant land class (Class C)
21 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Murweh Shire — rural suburbs

© State of Queensland · Digital Earth Australia

Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.

Suburb circles · sized by rural lots
10 500 5,000+
Agricultural land

Agricultural Land Class mix

How the 3,735 rural lots across Murweh Shire are classified for agricultural potential.

Class C Pasture land
Class A — crop land 4%
Class B — limited crop 0%
Class C — pasture 95%
Class D — non-agricultural 0%
Queensland Agricultural Land Audit — Class A is crop land, Class D has no significant agricultural value. Share of classified rural lots.
1% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land — Queensland's most productive cropping soils, protected under the Regional Planning Interests Act.
Climate

Rainfall, temperature, growing window

Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
474 mm
Semi-arid
Extreme heat days
71 / year
Hot summers
Climate zone
arid
dominant across rural lots

Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology station records.

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

21 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
82.90 M tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.

Green cover31%
Forest cover100%
Water

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage across rural lots in Murweh Shire.

Water access

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.

100%
in a water plan area — Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine
73%
in a groundwater management area
Water infrastructure nearby
2.5
km to a bore
582.8
km to a dam
1
licences within 1 km
A registered bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Groundwater area: Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine Groundwater Management Area

Source: Queensland water plan areas and the state groundwater (bores) database.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Murweh Shire intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Koala habitat 100%
Mapped koala habitat — clearing controls apply.
Flood hazard 96%
State environmental significance 37%
Matters of State Environmental Significance mapping.
Threatened ecological 20%
Bushfire hazard 2%
Wetland 1%
Protected area 1%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Cyclone zone · Storm-surge zone · Sea-level-rise exposure · Coastal erosion · Acid-sulfate soils
Fire history

Mapped fire scars

Satellite-mapped burnt-area history across rural lots — includes planned burns as well as bushfires.

68%
of lots burnt in 20 yrs
7%
burnt in the last 5 yrs
2025
most recent fire year

Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.

Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Murweh Shire.

Rural suburbs in Murweh Shire (16)

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Suburb Rural lots
Charleville 4470 756
Langlo 4470 362
Ward 4470 352
Bakers Bend 4470 341
Augathella 4477 334
Morven 4468 229
Cooladdi 4479 225
Sommariva 4470 168
Clara Creek 4468 166
Caroline Crossing 4477 163
Nive 4477 130
Riversleigh 4470 119
Upper Warrego 4477 119
Boatman 4468 117
Gowrie Station 4470 103
Murweh 4470 51
8 declared disasters · last 5 yrs

Declared disaster events give a sense of how often this council area is affected by flood, fire, storm or drought.

Land character
Tenure Freehold Ag region South West

About Murweh Shire

What is the agricultural land in Murweh Shire like?

Across 3,735 rural lots in Murweh Shire, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class C (pasture land), and 1% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Grazing native vegetation.

What's the climate of Murweh Shire's rural land?

Rural lots in Murweh Shire average 474 mm annual rainfall and about 71 days above 35°C a year, in the arid climate zone.

What water access do rural lots in Murweh Shire have?

100% of rural lots in Murweh Shire sit inside a statutory water plan area (Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine), and 73% inside a groundwater management area.

What data sources are used?

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.