Lower Cowley, Queensland

Lower Cowley is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Lower Cowley had a population of 55 people.

Geography
Liverpool Creek flows through Lower Cowley and enters the Coral Sea at Cowley Beach. The land is flat and low-lying and is used to grow crops, predominantly sugarcane. There is a cane tramway through the locality to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mills.

History
The locality takes its name from Cowley Beach, which in turn is named after horticulturalist Ebenezer Cowley, who was the overseer at Kamerunga State Nursery.

Cowley Lower State School opened on 10 May 1937 and closed in 1956.

Demographics
In the, Lower Cowley had a population of 64 people.

In the, Lower Cowley had a population of 55 people.