Mount Martin, Queensland
town in Queensland, Australia
Mount Martin is a rural locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Mount Martin had a population of 191 people.
Geography
The predominant land use is growing sugarcane with some grazing on native vegetation. There is a network of cane tramways to deliver the harvested sugarcane to the sugar mills for processing.
History
Mount Martin Provisional School opened in May 1906. On 1 January 1909 it became Mount Martin State School. It closed on 31 December 1961.
Demographics
In the 2011 census, the locality of Mount Martin had a population of 306 people.
In the 2016 census, the locality of Mount Martin had a population of 186 people.
In the 2021 census, the locality of Mount Martin had a population of 191 people.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mount Martin, Queensland” is town in Queensland, Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mount, Martin and Queensland, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14935512. Authority coordinates are -21.113, 148.804. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1906, 1909 and 1961.
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