Tingoora

Tingoora is a rural town and a locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the 2016 census, Tingoora had a population of 273 people.[1]

Tingoora
Queensland
Tingoora Hotel
Tingoora
Coordinates26.3608°S 151.8222°E / -26.3608; 151.8222
Population273 (2016 census)[1]
 • Density13.86/km2 (35.89/sq mi)
Postcode(s)4608
Area19.7 km2 (7.6 sq mi)
Location
LGA(s)South Burnett Region
State electorate(s)Nanango
Federal Division(s)Flynn
Localities around Tingoora:
Cushnie Greenview Wondai
Cushnie Tingoora Charlestown
Cushnie Wooroolin Charlestown

Geography

The town is on the Bunya Highway, 249 kilometres (155 mi) 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.[4]

History

The town takes its name from a railway station which was named for the local Indigenous Australian word in the Waka language for the wattle tree.[2]

The Tingoora Hotel, established in 1900, was reportedly the first public building in the town.[5]

In November 1904, 14 allotments were advertised for selection as agricultural farms by the Department of Public Lands office.[6] The advertising map states the allotments were situated in the Parishes of Charlestown and Wooroolin in the county of Fitzroy, Nanango land agent's district, shire of Nanango with J.H. Adair named as the surveyor. The area described in the map is today approximately bounded by Tingoora Road in the north, Transmitter Road to the east, Eckarts Road to the west with the Bunya Highway passing through.[7]

On 3 April 1921 St George's Anglican Church was dedicated by Edward Castell Osborn, Archdeacon of Toowoomba. It closed on 23 December 1962 and the church building was relocated to Proston where it is used as a church hall behind the Shepherd Memorial Anglican Church of St Peter.[8]

At the 2006 census, Tingoora had a population of 175.[9]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Tingoora (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. "Tingoora – town in South Burnett Region (entry 34638)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  3. "Tingoora – locality in South Burnett Region (entry 46273)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  4. Google (16 August 2019). "Tingoora, Queensland" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  5. "Tingoora". South Burnett Holidays. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
  6. "Advertising". The Telegraph (9986). Queensland, Australia. 21 November 1904. p. 1 (SECOND EDITION). Archived from the original on 15 September 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "Plan of portions 99v to 103v & 105v to 110v, parish of Charlestown, and of portions 310v to 312v, parish of Wooroolin, county of Fitzroy". rosettadel.slq.qld.gov.au. Archived from the original on 15 September 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  8. "Closed Churches". Anglican Church of Southern Queensland. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2019.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Tingoora (Wondai Shire) (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 12 January 2009.

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