The area east of the range falls rapidly to as low as 420 metres (1,380 ft) above sea level.

[3] 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.

[7] Between 1958 and 1961 three motor racing events took place at Middle Ridge, to coincide with the Carnival of Flowers in September.

[8] A rectangular circuit using Stenner Street-Mackenzie Street-Alderley Street-Rowbotham Street was run in an anti-clockwise direction.

[19] The Middle Ridge branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at 95 Preston-Boundary Road, Preston.