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County Of Fitzroy, Queensland
The County of Fitzroy is a county (a cadastral division) in Queensland, Australia. Like all counties in Queensland, it is a non-functional administrative unit, that is used mainly for the purpose of registering land titles. Fitzroy includes the eastern and central parts of the South Burnett Region and part of the former Shire of Kilkivan in the Gympie Region. at Queensland Archives. It was named by the Surveyor-General of New South Wales in the 1850s after Charles Augustus FitzRoy, who served as the |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation of Australia, Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = Local government areas of Queensland, 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarchy of Australia, Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor of Queensland, Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier of Queensland, Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk (Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), AL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Livingstone, Queensland
The County of Livingstone is a county (a cadastral division) in Queensland, Australia. It is centred on the city of Rockhampton and includes most of the Rockhampton Region. The county was created on 1 September 1855 by royal proclamation under the ''Waste Lands Australia Act 1846''. On 7 March 1901, the Governor issued a proclamation legally dividing Queensland into counties under the ''Land Act 1897''. Its schedule described Livingstone thus: Parishes Livingstone is divided into parishes, as listed below: References Livingstone External links * * * * {{cite web, url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-2mile-county-livingstone-sh2-1921.jpg, title=Map of the County of Livingstone (sheet 2), last=, first=, date=1921, website=, publisher=Queensland Government The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hivesville, Queensland
Hivesville is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Hivesville had a population of 169 people. Geography The town is located on the Proston-Wondai road, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. History Hivesville, originally referred to informally as Proston (a term inclusive of the whole district West of Mondure at the time, as well as the first buildings which became the town), was allocated the official name of Jaumbill by the Railways Department. Jaumbill is believed to be an Aboriginal word in the Waka language meaning ''yam''. On the request of James Braidwood Edwards, the Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Nanango, the town was named Hivesville, after George Hives, a pioneer settler. On 2 March 1923, the Queensland Railways Department named the railway station Hivesville. The Hives family owned substantial property around the site of the town (centred on Sunday Creek Station) from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tingoora, Queensland
Tingoora is a rural town and a locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. Geography The town is on the Bunya Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. The Chinchilla – Wondai Road ( State Route 82) enters from the west and terminates in a T-intersection with the Bunya Highway. History Charlestown Provisional School opened circa 1894 and closed circa 1894. The Kilkvan to Goomeri section of the Nanango railway line opened in December 1904, with Tingoora served by the now-abandoned Tingoora railway station (). The town takes its name from the railway station which was named for the local Indigenous Australian word in the Waka language for the wattle tree. The Tingoora railway bridge is the longest surviving wooden railway bridge in the South Burnett. The Theebine to Kingaroy line was officially closed in early 2010. The restored curved railway bridge is now part of the Kingaroy-Kilkivan Rail trail. The Tingoora Hotel, established in 1900, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wondai, Queensland
Wondai is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wondai had a population of 1,975 people. Geography Wondai is located to the south of the Bunya Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. History The name ''Wondai'' is believed to be an aboriginal word from the Wakawaka language derived from either meaning ''dingo'' (a native dog) or meaning ''nape of the neck''. Wondai was first settled in the 1850s and closer settlement took place in the early 1900s. Wondai Provisional School opened on 2 May 1905. On 1 January 1909 it became Wondai State School. A secondary department was added in 1964. Wondai Methodist Church opened on Sunday 4 October 1908, being replaced by the current church building on 9 August 1914. When the Methodist Church amalgamated into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became Wondai Uniting Church. In December 1912, a Baptist church opened in Wondai. St Mary's Anglican Church was dedicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manumbar, Queensland
Manumbar is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Manumbar had a population of 53 people. Geography There are a number of state forests in Manumbar: * Jimmys Scrub State Forest, in the north of the locality () * Kabunga State Forest, in the north of the locality () * Gallangowan State Forest, in the south of the locality () Apart from the state forests, the predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History The New South Wales Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands accepted the tender in 1855 by John Mortimer and Andrew Anderson for the run called Manumbar. The 16,000 acres had an estimated grazing capability of 4,000 sheep. The triangular block of land was bounded on the west by the station of Toomcul; on the north and east by a range dividing the Mary and Burnett watersheds ; and on the south by a high range dividing the waters of the Brisbane and Burnett Rivers. However Mortimer occupied the land from 1848. In 1861 the pasto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodger, Queensland
Goodger is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Goodger had a population of 187 people. Geography Boonenne is a neighbourhood in the north-west of the locality (). Industry The district was the only area in Queensland with known kaolin deposits of economic importance between 1950 and 1986, and it consequently supplied all kaolin produced in the state. The earliest workings, known as Campbell's Pit, were in the south west of the locality. In more recent years a granite quarry is located in the central west of the locality. History The locality was named after the Goodger railway station on Tarong railway line, after the Goodger brothers (George, James and Howard A.) who were pioneer selectors. The name ''Boonenne'' is a corruption of an Waka word ''boon-u-inn'' meaning ''myrtle tree''. The name was assigned as a railway station name by Queensland Railways Department Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goomeri, Queensland
Goomeri ( ) is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Goomeri had a population of 664 people. Geography The town is located on the intersection of the Burnett, Bunya and Wide Bay Highways, from the state capital, Brisbane. The main street is Moore Street; the Burnett Highway follows Moore Street through the town. Goomeri lies west of the Coast Range. History European settlement in the Goomeri area began in 1846 with the establishment of Booubyjan Homestead and Boonara Station. The Kilkivan to Goomeri section of the Nanango railway line opened in 1902, and the Goomeri to Wondai section opened on 14 September 1903. The line was officially closed in early 2010. Closer settlement took place in 1911 with the sale of rural allotments and town blocks. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coolabunia, Queensland
Coolabunia is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coolabunia had a population of 161 people. Geography The D'Aguilar Highway passes through from south-east to north-west. Hornley is a neighbourhood (). It takes its name from the Hornley railway station name, which was named on 15 March 1911 after Ezra Horne and Hubert Horne, who were pioneer selectors in the area around 1887. History The locality name is derived from the Waka language, Bujiebara dialect, Gowrburra clan words "koala" and "buani" (meaning ''sleeping''), as the area was a camp site on Aboriginal walking tracks to the Bunya Mountains. Coolabunia railway station, named for the locality, was on the former Nanango railway line. Coolabunia Provisional School opened on 16 June 1891. On 1 January 1909, it became Coolabunia State School. Coolabunia West Provisional School opened on 13 June 1904. On 1 January 1909, it became Coolabunia West State School. It closed circa 1936. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloyna, Queensland
Cloyna is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Cloyna had a population of 142 people. History Cloyna State School opened on 20 February 1911. The construction of the Lutheran Church was completed in May 1911 with the church officially opening on Coronation Day Coronation Day is the anniversary of the coronation of a monarch, the day a king or queen is formally crowned and invested with the regalia. By country Cambodia * Norodom Sihamoni - October 29, 2004 Ethiopia * Haile Selassie I - November 2, 1930 ..., 22 June 1911. Cloyna Baptist Church opened in 1924. It was officially opened on 15 March 1924. It closed circa 1990. It was located at 71 Cloyna West Road (). It was close to the Cloyna railway station. It is now in private ownership. The former Cloyna railway station () was on the now-closed Windera railway line. The line operated from 1925 to 1961. In 2007, the building of the former Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity at 227 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherbourg, Queensland
Cherbourg (), formerly known as Barambah, Barambah Aboriginal Settlement and Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement, is a rural town and locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Cherbourg, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Cherbourg had a population of 1,269 people, of whom 98.7% identified as Indigenous Australians. Geography Cherbourg is located off the Bunya Highway approximately north-west of Brisbane and from the town of Murgon. It is situated on Barambah Creek, close to Bjelke-Petersen Dam. History Wakka Wakka (Waka Waka, Wocca Wocca, Wakawaka) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Burnett River catchment. The Wakka Wakka language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the North and South Burnett Regional Council, particularly the towns of Cherbourg, Murgon, Kingaroy, Gayndah, Eidsvold and Mundubbera. The town was founded as a settlement for Aboriginal people, known as an Aboriginal reserve, under a policy of segre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inverlaw, Queensland
Inverlaw is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ..., Australia. In the Inverlaw had a population of 203 people. History Four Mile Gully Provisional School opened on 12 November 1907. On 1 January 1909 it became Four Mile Gully State School. On 17 September 1912 it was renamed Inverlaw State School. It closed on 24 May 1968. In the Inverlaw had a population of 203 people. References South Burnett Region Localities in Queensland {{SouthBurnett-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
