Highgrove is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Highgrove had a population of 28 people.
Geography The ridgeline of the Great Dividing Range roughly bounds the locality to the north and east. The locality is within the Murray-Darling drainage basin within the catchment of the Condaimne River.
The Oakey–Cooyar Road traverses the locality entering from the south-east (Evergreen) and exiting to the north (Nutgrove).
The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing in the south of the locality.
History The Cooyar railway line opened from Oakey to Cooyar in 1913. The Muntapa Tunnel was a concrete railway tunnel located on the line passing through the Great Dividing Range at the north-western corner of the locality connecting it to neighbouring Nutgrove to the north. The line closed through Highgrove on 1 May 1964.
Demographics In the , Highgrove had a population of 29 people.
In the , Highgrove had a population of 28 people.
Heritage listings Highgrove has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Muntapa Tunnel, Narko-Nutgrove Road from Highgrove to Nutgrove ()
Economy There are a number of homesteads in the locality:
Bulgana () Burndale () Datarra Hills () Glazels () Rocky Basin () Springview ()
Education There are no schools in Highgrove. The nearest government primary schools are:
Kulpi State School in Kulpi to the south-west Quinalow State School in Quinalow to the west Cooyar State School in Cooyar to the north-east Haden State School in Haden to the south-east. The nearest government secondary schools are Quinalow State School (to Year 10) in Quinalow and Oakey State High School in Oakey to the south.
There is also a Catholic primary school in Oakey.
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