Rifle Range, Queensland
Rifle Range is a locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Rifle Range had a population of 186 people. Geography. Lockyer Creek marks the suburbs northern and western boundary. There is irrigated cropping in areas close to the creek with grazing on native vegetation in the middle of the locality. The southern part of the locality is most rural residential. Rifle Range Road provides access into the locality from neighbouring Lowood. History. A rifle range was first established near Lowood in 1886. In January 1905 the Queensland Government sold a parcel of land for to  establish a new rifle range near Lowood. The south-east boundary of the rifle range is the present-day south-eastern boundary of the locality of Rifle Range (Plan CC58 Lot 461, ) and presumably the origin of its name. The Lowood rifle range closed in 1953. Education. There are no schools in Rifle Range. The nearest primary schools are in neighbouring Clarendon, Lowood and Mount Tarampa. The nearest secondary school is in Lowood.