Heatley
Located in Wulgurukaba country, eight kilometres southwest of central Townsville, Heatley is bounded by Nathan Street in the east, Dalrymple Road to the north and Charles Street to the south. The absence of a significant thoroughfare between Fulham Road and Bamford Lane makes a western boundary harder to define.
The largely residential suburb, named after the influential businessman William J. Heatley, Mayor of Townsville from 1927 to 1933, developed as Townsville began its rapid westward expansion in the late 1960s. When it opened at the start of the 1968 school year, Heatley State High School was on the city's fringes. By the time Heatley State School opened three years later, residential development had spread to the other side of Fulham Road, with the space west of Nathan Street largely taken up.
