Lochington pastoral station obtained a mail service on 1 January 1937. Lockington Provisional School opened 23 January 1961 on land that was once part of Lockington pastoral station, and became Lockington State School at a new site in January 1965. The school closed 14 December 1979 due to low student numbers, but reopened in January 1991, as Lochington State School (a new spelling of the name). On 17 April 2020, the
Queensland Government re-drew the boundaries of
localities within the Central Highlands Region by replacing the locality of
The Gemfields with three new localities of
Rubyvale,
Sapphire Central and
Anakie Siding (around the towns of Rubyvale,
Sapphire, and
Anakie respectively). This included adjusting the boundaries of other existing localities in the Region to accommodate these changes; Lochington lost a small portion of land to the north to the new Anakie Siding, lost a strip of land from its north-eastern edge mostly to
Gindie but gained a small piece of land from
Minerva, with the overall effect of reducing the area of the locality from . As a consequence of these changes, the boundary between Lochington and Minerva/Gindie more closely follows the course of the
Nogoa River. == Demographics ==