Gatton (Queensland)

Gatton
Landsat assembly by Gatton
State :  Australia State : Queensland Founded : 1855
Coordinates : 27 ° 33 ′  S , 152 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 27 ° 33 ′  S , 152 ° 17 ′  E Height : 94  m Area : 8.5  km²
Residents : 6,327 (2016) Population density : 744 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 4343 LGA : Lockyer Valley Region
Gatton

Gatton is a city with 6,327 inhabitants in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland . It is 90 kilometers west of Brisbane and 40 kilometers east of Toowoomba . Gatton is located in the Lockyer Valley and is the administrative seat of the administrative area of ​​the same name (LGA) Lockyer Valley Region . Located on the Warrego Highway , it is one of the earliest rural settlements in Queensland.

history

Major Edmund Lockyer was the first European to cross this area in 1825. The first settlers settled in the 1840s and the town was officially founded on April 13, 1855, probably taking its name from the town of the same name in Roxburghshire , Scotland . Three years later, Gatton became an important stopover for the stagecoach from Brisbane to the Darling Downs region. Its own post office was opened on January 1, 1866.

It was not until the connection to the Ipswich railway line in 1875 that the town experienced a boom as an important service center for the surrounding farms.

Even today Gatton is the center of this agricultural region, on whose black, fertile soil mainly potatoes , onions and vegetables are grown. In addition, livestock and dairy farming also play an important role.

The Gatton murders

Gatton gained some notoriety for a triple murder that occurred on December 26, 1898. Three siblings were shot or beaten to death on their way home from a dance event. Above all, the following investigations, with some hair-raising errors by all those involved, caused a sensation throughout Australia. So the crime scene was not secured and subsequently devastated by numerous onlookers. During the autopsy, the coroner forgot to secure the pistol from the head of one of the victims and the prime suspect, although he was seen washing a blood-stained sweater, was able to run away a few days later.

climate

Average Monthly Temperatures and Precipitation for UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND GATTON - Altitude: 89 m from 1913 to 2011 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 31.5 30.7 29.5 27.1 23.7 21.1 20.7 22.4 25.5 28.1 30.1 31.3 O 26.8 Min. Temperature (° C) 19.1 19.0 17.3 13.7 10.2 7.6 6.2 6.7 9.5 13.2 16.0 18.1 O 13 Precipitation ( mm ) 110.9 100.4 78.4 49.8 46.2 42.0 37.5 27.1 35.4 65.4 79.2 99.9 Σ 772.2 Rainy days ( d ) 8.2 7.7 7.3 4.9 4.6 4.0 3.8 3.7 4.0 6.1 6.6 7.9 Σ 68.8 Source:

gallery

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  Park View House around 1906

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  Warrego Highway just before Gatton

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  Gatton War Memorial

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  Main Street from Gatton

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  Gatton Administrative Center

Web links

Commons : Gatton, Queensland  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Gatton
• Information about Gatton

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Climate statistics for Australian locations (UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND GATTON) ( English ) Australian Government - Bureau of Meteorologie . Retrieved November 17, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Gatton ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Travel Gatton , The Age , February 8, 2004. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
4. ^ Historical Towns Directory . In: Australian Heritage . Archived from the original on September 12, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 4, 2008. 
5. ↑ Frew, Joan (1981). Queensland Post Offices 1842-1980 and Receiving Offices 1869-1927 , p. 277. Fortitude Valley, Queensland, ISBN 0-9593973-0-2 .