Miles (Queensland)

Miles is a small town in southern Queensland, Australia. The city is located about 340 kilometers west of the capital, Brisbane, 130 kilometers north-west of Dalby and 140 kilometers east of Roma in the Western Downs region of Queensland. Miles has about 1,150 inhabitants.

Miles is on a flat area of ​​the Dogwood Creek, on which the German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt Australia crossed the river in 1844 on his first expedition Australia. Leichhardt named the place Dogwood Crossing, which was also the official name of the first settlement made ​​there. Later it was named in honor of William Miles, a high official of the colony of Queensland, renamed.

Like most other cities in the region is also influenced Miles economically by agriculture. The cultivation of wheat, barley and cotton then expands as important a role as the cattle and sheep. Other important industries are timber processing and the mining of bentonite.

Miles is located at the junction of Warrego Highway and Leichhardt Highway. First runs in an east -west direction and connects with Miles Dalby and Toowoomba in the east and Roma in the West. The Leichhardt Highway runs north -south direction by Miles and provides connections to Goondiwindi in the south and Gladstone and Rockhampton in the north. Also, Miles has a station on the railway line between Brisbane and Charleville, which is operated by QR.