title: Alsace, Queensland
text: # Alsace, Queensland
  
  Alsace is a rural locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Alsace had a population of 3 people.
  
  ## Geography
  
  The land is at an elevation of approximately 150 metres (490 ft) and is principally used for grazing. A number of creek flow through the locality towards its south-east where in neighbouring Dingo, they become tributaries of Lorraine Creek, which flows into the Mackenzie River and then the Fitzroy River, which enters the Coral Sea to the south of Rockhampton.
  
  The Fitzroy Developmental Road forms the western boundary of the locality which has no internal roads.
  
  ## History
  
  The locality is named after a pastoral property on the Leichhardt River. In the early 1870s, F.A. Brodie named two adjoining properties Alsace and Lorraine after the two regions Alsace and Lorraine in France that were lost to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War.
  
  Alsace State School opened on 9 Aug 1977 and closed on 11 December 1987.
  
  In the 2016 census, Alsace had a population of 3 people.
  
  ## Education
  
  There are no schools in Alsace. The nearest primary school is in neighbouring Dingo to the south, approximately 70 kilometres away. The nearest secondary schools are in Blackwater and Middlemount, even further away. Distance education is another option available for children in the local area.
  
  