Vinegar Hill is a rural locality in the

Lockyer Valley Region The Lockyer Valley Region is a local government area (LGA) in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland, Australia. The region is located between the cities of Ipswich and Toowoomba, and is bordered by the Somerset and Southern Downs ...

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, Australia. In the , Vinegar Hill had a population of 57 people.

Geography

The locality presumably takes its name from the hill Vinegar Hill in the south-west of the locality () which rises to above sea level. Most of the locality is within the Lockyer National Park which extends into neighbouring Seventeen Mile and Ringwood. There are two sections of the locality in the south and south-east not within the national park; the land use within these is predominantly

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation.

Demographics

In the , Vinegar Hill had a population of 57 people. In the , Vinegar Hill had a population of 57 people.

Education

There are no schools in Vinegar Hill. The nearest government primary schools are Lake Claredon State School in Lake Claredon to the south-east, Gatton State School in Gatton to the south, and Helidon State School in Helidon to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Lockyer District State High School, also in Gatton.

Vinegar Hill virus

The locality gives its name to the Vinegar Hill orthonairovirus, which is a tick-bourne. In 1981, the virus was isolated on the Australian mainland from a pool of five female '' Argasidae robertsi'' ticks collected from a rookery of the cattle egret ('' Bulbulcus ibis'') in the Gatton area in December 1981.

References

{{Lockyer Valley Region Lockyer Valley Region Localities in Queensland