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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]
Kilkivan is situated on the Wide Bay Highway, 229 kilometres (142 mi) north of the state capital, Brisbane [4] and 50.4 kilometres (31.3 mi) west of Gympie. [5]Kingaroy is situated on the junction of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways, 218 kilometres (135 mi) north-west of Brisbane [6] and 141 kilometres (88 mi) south- west of Gympie.
Built in 1938, the Kingaroy Shire Chambers demonstrate the growth, prosperity and consolidation of Kingaroy as an important regional centre in the Wide Bay-Burnett. [1]The arrival of the Kilkivan branch railway to the "56 mile peg" in 1904 was the impetus for the establishment of the township of Kingaroy, as a rapid expansion of closer agricultural settlement occurred in the surrounding region.
The Stone City Historic District is located in Stone City, Iowa, United States.Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in November 2008. The buildings of Stone City Historic District were constructed using Anamosa Limestone quarried locally and built between 1870 and 1913.
[6] [7] [8] It runs from Kingaroy–Cooyar Road in Maidenwell to Bunya Mountains Road in Bunya Mountains, a distance of 25.5 kilometres (15.8 mi), passing through Wengenville. [14] There is an unsealed section of about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) on this road. The climb/descent is steep and narrow, but with no sharp curves.
The 56-mile (90 km) peg was near the corner of the Kingaroy Paddock. The termination of the railway line at the peg was the impetus for the establishment of the town of Kingaroy. Daniel Carroll and Arthur Youngman (owner of Taabinga station) sold town blocks at public auction in 1903-04. When the first train arrived on 19 December 1904, the ...
RM 1901 crossing the Dickabram Bridge c.1991. The Nanango railway line was a narrow-gauge branch railway located in Queensland, Australia.On 31 October 1882, parliament approved the construction of a branch line from Theebine (then called Kilkivan Junction) west to Kilkivan after gold and copper were discovered in this region of Queensland, Australia.
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 ...