title: Dairy Plains, Tasmania
text: # Dairy Plains, Tasmania
  
  Dairy Plains is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Meander Valley in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 36 kilometres (22 mi) west of the town of Westbury. The 2016 census recorded a population of 69 for the state suburb of Dairy Plains.
  
  ## History
  
  Dairy Plains was gazetted as a locality in 1968.
  
  It is an area that was part of the Van Diemen's Land Company holdings.
  
  ## Geography
  
  The boundaries are mostly survey lines, with small sections of minor watercourses in several places.
  
  ## Road infrastructure
  
  Route C168 (Dairy Plains Road) runs through from north to south.
  
  