Southwood is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The Moonie Highway (State Route 49) runs through from east to south-west.

[4] The town of Southwood was surveyed on 19 February 1886 by Fred W. Barlow on the northern banks of the Moonie River within the Wild Horse Paradise pastoral run.

[2] By the 1960s, the only thing remaining in the town was the gravestone of Amelia, the wife of Constable Boyle, who died in 1891.

[2][5] In the 2016 census, the locality of Southwood had a population of 84 people.