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Malpas-Trenton, Queensland

locality in McKinlay, Queensland, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ55453277 ↗
Source-derived summary

Malpas-Trenton is an outback locality in the Shire of Mckinlay, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Malpas-Trenton had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

The Flinders River forms most of the southern boundary before flowing through to the west.

Demographics

In the 2016 census, Malpas-Trenton had a population of 23 people.

In the 2021 census, Malpas-Trenton had "no people or a very low population".

Education

There are no schools in Malpas-Trenton. The nearest government primary school is Julia Creek State School in neighbouring Julia Creek to the south-west; however, it would be too distant from most parts of Malpas-Trenton. Also, there are no nearby secondary schools. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Malpas-Trenton, Queensland” as locality in McKinlay, Queensland, Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Malpas-Trenton, Queensland and locality can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as locality in McKinlay, Queensland, Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55453277. Authority coordinates are -19.921, 142.158. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Malpas-Trenton, Queensland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.