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Kingaroy (/ k ɪ ŋ ə ˈ r ɔɪ /) [2] is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. [3] [4] The town is situated on the junction of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways, 218 kilometres (135 mi) north-west of the state capital Brisbane [5] and 141 kilometres (88 mi) south west of Gympie. [6]
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The Shire of Kingaroy was a local government area in the South Burnett area of Queensland, Australia, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of the capital, Brisbane.The shire covered an area of 2,420.3 square kilometres (934.5 sq mi), and existed as a local government area from 1912 until 2008, when it amalgamated with a number of other local government areas in the South Burnett area to ...
Daniel Carroll's House is a small timber residence constructed in 1900 on a selection owned by Daniel Carroll. Carroll was an early settler of the district, part of a wave of selectors who took up land in the area from the 1880s onwards, and his cottage was the nucleus of a small settlement that was to become the town of Kingaroy.
Boonenne is a neighbourhood in the north-west of the locality (3]. The Kingaroy-Cooyar Road enters the locality from the south and exits to the north (). [4]The land use is a mixture of grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing and rural residential housing.
On 17 October 1904, the first government land sales occurred in the new town of Memerambi with 58 town lots and 74 suburban lots on offer. [6] On 19 December 1904, the final stage of the Nanango railway line from Murgon to Kingaroy was opened with Memeambi railway station serving the town. [7] This section of the line was closed in July 1964. [8]
Kingaroy Shire Council Chambers This page was last edited on 3 October 2018, at 20:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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