Southwood is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Southwood had a population of 57 people.
Geography The Moonie Highway (State Route 49) runs through from east to south-west.
History The town of Southwood was surveyed on 19 February 1886 by Fred W. Barlow on the northern banks of the Moonie River within the Wild Horse Paradise pastoral run. A police station and a couple of hotels were established but the town never developed and disappeared after the police station closed in 1911.
By the 1960s, the only thing remaining in the town was the gravestone of Amelia, the wife of Constable Boyle, who died in 1891.
Demographics In the , the locality of Southwood had a population of 84 people.
In the , the locality of Southwood had a population of 57 people.
Education There are no schools in Southwood. The nearest government primary schools are Westmar State School in neighbouring Westmar to the west and Moonie State School in neighbouring Moonie to the north-east. There are no secondary schools nearby. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school.
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