Goomburra is a rural town and

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in the

Southern Downs Region The Southern Downs Region is a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, along the state's boundary with New South Wales. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shire of Warwick and the Shire of Stanthorp ...

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 , the locality of Goomburra had a population of 259 people. Inverramsay is a neighbourhood in Goomburra ().

Geography

Goomburra is on the

Darling Downs The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. The Downs are to the west of South East Queensland and are one of the major regions of Queensland. The name was generally ...

. It is the valley of Dalrymple Creek which flows from east to west away from the Great Dividing Range towards

Allora Allora is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Allora had a population of 1,223 people. Geography Allora is on the Darling Downs in south-e ...

. The creek eventually becomes a tributary of the

Condamine River The Condamine River, part of the Balonne catchment that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin, drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, an area of sub-coastal southern Queensland, Australia. The river is approximately 500 kilometers (31 ...

, part of the Murray-Darling river system. Goomburra railway station is an abandoned railway station on the closed

Goomburra railway line The Goomburra railway line was a branch railway in the Southern Downs region of Queensland, Australia. History Construction of the Southern railway line from Toowoomba to Warwick brought it as far as Dalrymple Creek near Allora in 1869. At ...

().

History

The town's name came from the name of a pastoral run operated by pastoralist

Patrick Leslie Patrick Leslie (25 September 1815 – 12 August 1881) was a Scottish settler in Australia. Leslie and his two brothers (Walter and George) were the first to settle on the Darling Downs, and he was the first person to buy land in Warwick. ...

from 1840 to 1841. It is an Aboriginal word which is either a corruption of ''gooneburra'' meaning ''fire black tribe'', or which means a ''shield derived from the kurrajong tree''. Goomburra State School opened on 25 April 1881. It closed temporarily in 1905 due to low student numbers. It closed permanently on 14 June 1925. Circa August 1901, the

Queensland Government The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended f ...

purchased the Goomburra pastoral run of . This land was divided for closer settlement and sold in April 1902. Goomburra Township Provisional School opened on 10 March 1904. On 1 January 1909 it became Goomburra Township State School. Following a fire which destroyed the school, it was closed on 3 January 1972. St John's Anglican Church was dedicated in 1911 by The Venerable

Arthur Richard Rivers Arthur Richard Rivers (1857–1940) was Dean of Hobart from 1920 to 1940. Early life Rivers was born in Teignmouth and educated at St John's College, Oxford. His younger brother was Richard Godfrey Rivers, an artist and gallery curator. Re ...

. Its closure circa 2012 was approved by Archbishop

Phillip Aspinall Phillip John Aspinall (born 17 December 1959) is an Australian Anglican bishop. He has been the archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane since February 2002 and was also the Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from July 2005 un ...

. Goomburra was the terminus of the

which opened in 1912 and closed in 1961. In October 1912, the 1879 Presbyterian church building in

was relocated to become the Presbyterian church in Goomburra, which is east of Allora. The relocation of the church required two traction engines and took ten days to negotiate difficult terrain and other problems. Inverramsay State School opened on 2 February 1914 and closed on 22 August 1965. On 31 December 1919 in the public hall,

Littleton Groom Sir Littleton Ernest Groom KCMG KC (22 April 18676 November 1936) was an Australian politician. He held ministerial office under four prime ministers between 1905 and 1925, and subsequently served as Speaker of the House of Representatives f ...

(the member for

) unveiled the town's honour board, listing the 32 names of those who had performed military service in

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

including 10 who died in the war. In the , the locality of Goomburra had a population of 259 people.

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* {{authority control Towns in Queensland Southern Downs Region Localities in Queensland