Coopers Plains

Coopers Plains is an external suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 11 kilometers south-west of the CBD. The rural area is home to the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital. The area was initially called Cowper's Plains. It was named by John Oxley after Dr Henry Cowper, Assistant Surgeon-in-Charge at the Moreton Bay Settlement from 1823 to 1832. A convict settlement was set up at Cowper's Plains in 1828. The name was debased and by 1860 the zone was known as Cooper's Plains. By 1877 it was known as Coopers Plains.

The principal post office opened in 1876. Coopers Plains stayed country until the 1940s. The United States Army fabricated a sleeping enclosure contiguous the railroad station 1942, which after the war turned into the Australian Army's Damour Barracks. The Coopers Plains Library opened in 1979 with a noteworthy repair in 2014. In the 2011 registration the number of inhabitants in Coopers Plains was 4,208, 49% female and 51% male.