Westgrove, Queensland

Westgrove is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Westgrove had a population of 4 people.

Geography
The Great Dividing Range bounds the locality to the west.

Sardine Creek rises in the north of the locality and flows south and then east, exiting the locality to Upper Dawson where it becomes a tributary of the Dawson River.

Most of the southern part of the locality is within the Forrest State Forest. Apart from this protected area, the surface land use is grazing on native vegetation.

There are gas fields belong the surface and gas is actively being extracted from within the locality.

History
The locality takes its name from an early pastoral run in the district which appears on the 1870s Gregory's Map of Queensland.

Yellowbank Junction State School opened on 29 January 1991 and closed on 14 December 2001. It was probably associated with the development of the Yellowbank Gas Plant.

Demographics
In the, Westgrove had "no people or a very low population".

In the, Westgrove had a population of 4 people.

Education
There are no schools in Westgrove. The nearest government primary and secondary school is Injune State School (to Year 10) in Injune to the south. There are no nearby schools offering education to Year 12; the options are distance education and boarding school.