Download coordinates as: Warwick (/ˈwɒrɪk/ WORR-ik)[2] is a rural town and locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying 130 kilometres (81 mi) south-west of Brisbane.

The surrounding Darling Downs have fostered a strong agricultural industry for which Warwick, together with the larger city of Toowoomba, serve as convenient service centres.

[5] The Condamine River often floods, which can disconnect the northern and southern parts of Warwick and close the highways.

Low-lying land around the river is mostly used for recreation to minimise the damage caused by flooding with most developed areas at higher levels.

[5] The Gidhabal (also known as Githabal, Gidabal, Kitabal) language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Southern Downs Regional Council, particularly Warwick, Killarney and Woodenbong extending into New South Wales.

[7] The Gidhabal people referred to area of Warwrick as Gooragooby[8] The Warwick Green Belt, on the banks of the Condamine River, features a sculpture of Tiddalik the mythical frog that drank all of the fresh water in a renowned Aboriginal Dreamtime story.

[9] Patrick Leslie and his two brothers originally settled in the area as squatters, naming their run Canning Downs.

In 1847 the NSW government asked Leslie to select a site on his station for a township, which was to be called 'Cannington,' although the name 'Warwick' was eventually settled on.

[16][17][14] In 1871 the Southern railway line reached Warwick,[18] a brewery was built in 1873, then a cooperative flour mill and brickworks were completed during 1874.

In 1877, 25,000 acres (10,000 ha) of land was resumed from the Canning Downs pastoral run to establish smaller farms.

However, it was not until September 1880 after considerable local agitation that the government called for tenders to build the hospital, resulting in a contract awarded to A.W.

[21][22][23] However, by February 1881, tenders were being called for again, and in April 1881 the Queensland Government announced the hospital would not proceed.

[26] Tenders were called again in February 1882 resulting in a contract with Messrs Wallace and Gibson in March 1882.

The monument was built from 1901 to 1902 and was officially unveiled on Saturday 13 December 1902 by the Governor of Queensland, Sir Herbert Chermside.

The school was operated by the Sisters of the Sacred Advent and the first headmistress was Miss Margaret Brown.

[41] In February 1918, the Presbyterian Girls College (PGC) opened in an existing house "Glenbrae" on over five acres in Locke Street, as a boarding and day school with 53 girls under headmistress Miss Constance Mackness (who retired in 1949, the longest serving headmistress of the school).

[42] The school was established by local families who did not want to have to send their daughters to Toowoomba for a Presbyterian education.

[43] In 1918, to meet the need for Presbyterian education for boys, the Scots College opened as a Presbyterian boarding and day for boys in an existing house "Arranmore" on the banks of the Condamine River under headmaster James Logan Briggs.

In 2000 the site was purchased by the Anglican Church Grammar School (based in Brisbane), becoming their Slade Campus.

The building cost about £2,000 and was built on land donated by the Warwick ambulance brigade.

[51] During World War II, the 2/12th Army General Hospital took over the Scots College buildings and grounds in Oxenham Street, with the school relocating to Kingswood and Toolburra.

[1] The Southern Downs Regional Council operates a public library in Warwick at 49 Albion Street.

[59] The Condamine Valley branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association has its rooms at 76 Grafton Street.

[80] Its coverage was gradually extended to Toowoomba, Pittsworth, Millmerran, Clifton, Allora, Stanthorpe, Crows Nest, Highfields, Dalby, Oakey, Tara, Goondiwindi, Boonah, and Esk.

[81] Warwick's Community Radio Station started transmissions in 1995 as 'Rainbow FM' and had the callsign 4CCC.

[86] Warwick experiences an altitude-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa), with hot summers and mild, relatively dry winters with cold nights.

The town is slightly cooler and less humid than the proximate southeast Queensland coast due to its elevation; consequently, frost is present in winter.