West Prairie is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The locality takes its name from the Prairie pastoral run operated by Henry Stuart Russell in 1855.

On Buxton's Map of the Darling Downs, 1864, the run is shown in the hands of Russell and Taylor.

[2] In 1877, 6,500 acres (2,600 ha) of land was resumed from the West Prairie pastoral run to establish smaller farms.

[3] West Prairie Provisional School opened on 19 January 1885.