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Ravenswood is a rural town and locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 2021 census , the locality of Ravenswood had a population of 297 people. [ 1 ]
The increased population of north Queensland, longer paid holidays, improved roads and the rise of car ownership after World War II, all increased visitation to Ravenswood, as did the completion of a road past Ravenswood to the Burdekin Dam, in the 1980s. [161]
However, when the Ravenswood branch railway closed on 16 March 1931, the railway station was then renamed Mingela (an Aboriginal word meaning a string of waterholes). [2] Ravenswood Junction Provisional School opened on 3 January 1882. Circa 1910 it became Ravenswood Junction State School. In 1931 it was renamed Mingela State School.
Rank LGA Population Region Notes 2016 census 2011 census; 1 Brisbane: 1,131,155 [652]1,041,842 [653]South East Queensland: 2 Gold Coast: 555,724 [654]494,503 [655]South East Queensland
Ravenswood Division was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 with a population of 1412. [1]On 18 January 1882, the subdivisions were abolished (meaning all of board members would be elected by all residents rather than having representatives from different parts of the division).
Population: 0 (2021 census) [1] ... Ravenswood: Ravenswood: Mount Wyatt: Eight Mile Creek is a rural locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia. [2]
Population: 83 (2021 census) [1] ... Ravenswood: Mingela: Dotswood is a rural locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. [2]
Ravenswood Shire was absorbed into Dalrymple Shire in 1929 and in 1930 Ravenswood became the first Queensland town to lose its railway connection. Mining had a modest revival in the 1930s, but this had little effect on the life of the town. By the 1960s Ravenswood had reached its lowest ebb with a population of about 70.