Alton Downs is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Alton Downs had a population of 1,278 people. History The locality name was derived from a pastoral property. The name was assigned to a railway station named by the Queensland Railways Department on 18 Aug 1916. Alton Downs Provisional School opened on 10 February 1890. In 1908 it became Alton Downs State School. It closed on 26 March 1964. It was at 1247 Ridgelands Road (). The Alton Downs Community Hall officially opened on 2 January 1905. The Alton Downs War Memorial was officially unveiled on 16 October 1920 by Mrs H.G. Wheeler to honour those from the district who served in World War I. The memorial is made of Ulam marble and is a broken column (signifying young life cut short). It cost £180 to erect and the stonemason was Frederick Moulton Allan of Rockhampton. A seven-hour siege occurred at Alton Downs on the night of 20 July 2000 after police responded to reports of a serious domestic dispute on a hobby farm where gunshots had been fired. Just after midnight on 21 July 2000, former air force officer Royce William Cooper fired a shot at Queensland Police Service dog squad officer Norm Watt who was hit in the leg. Watt subsequently bled to death from the bullet wound. Cooper later surrendered to police. A two-week trial was held at the Rockhampton Supreme Court in 2003 where Cooper pleaded not guilty. At the conclusion of the trial, a jury deliberated for five hours before finding Cooper guilty of murder. Justice Peter Dutney sentenced Cooper to life in prison. Watt is regularly remembered on the anniversary of his death and at events commemorating Queensland police officers who have been killed in the line of duty. In March 2020, a new police vessel was named in Watt's honour. In the , Alton Downs had a population of 1,278 people. Access to a reliable water supply has been an ongoing concern for the Alton Downs community for many years. A public meeting was held in January 2020 which was attended by local residents and local state MP for Mirani Stephen Andrew. Residents voiced their concerns about never having been able have a main water pipeline established despite being in close proximity to the Fitzroy River. The unreliable water supply is a concern for the local rural fire