Middle Ridge

Middle Ridge is a residential locality of Toowoomba in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.

Middle Ridge is a residential locality of Toowoomba in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Middle Ridge had a population of 7,141 people.

Middle Ridge was named in the 1860s, as the area between East and West Creeks where the teamsters who camped at Toowoomba turned their teams loose to graze.The Shire of Middle Ridge, a local government area, existed from 1880 to 1917. The shire's centre was at the intersection of Stenner and Hume Streets (27.5934°S 151.9521°E? / -27.5934; 151.9521? (Intersection of Hume Street and Stenner Street, Middle Ridge (centre of the historical Shire of Middle Ridge))) now the north-western corner of the locality of Middle Ridge where there was the shire hall, the school and a church.Between 1958 and 1961 three motor racing events took place at Middle Ridge, to coincide with the 'Carnival of the Flowers' in September. A rectangular circuit using Stenner Street-Mackenzie Street-Alderley Street-Rowbotham Street was run in an anti-clockwise direction. There have been several reasons given why racing stopped after 1961 - local farmers claimed that the races stopped their chickens laying eggs; the carnival organisers believed that loud racing engines were incompatible with flowers; or that the races were pulling spectators away from other Carnival events.Middle Ridge State School opened on 27 May 1884.