Abercorn is a rural town and

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...

in the

North Burnett Region The North Burnett Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia in the northern catchment of the Burnett River. Established in 2008, it was preceded by several previous local government areas with histories extending back to the ear ...

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 Abercorn had a population of 46 people.

Geography

The

Burnett River The Burnett River is a river located in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Course and features The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta a ...

forms the eastern boundary of Abercorn. Three Moon Creek passes close to the town and across the locality into the Burnett River. The

Burnett Highway The Burnett Highway is an inland rural highway located in Queensland, Australia. The highway runs between its junction with the Bruce Highway at Gracemere, just south of Rockhampton, and Nanango. Its length is approximately 542 kilometres. The ...

passes through the locality but there is no direct access from the highway to the town; to get to Abercorn, the turn-off from the highway is onto Wuruma Dam Road at

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. There is a state forest in the north of the locality extending into Kapaldo.

History

The town takes its name from its railway station, which was named on 19 June 1925 by the

Queensland Railway Department Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Owned by the Queensland Government, it operates local and long-distance passenger services, as well as owning and maintaining approximately 6,600 kilometres of track and relate ...

.possibly after the champion thoroughbred horse

Abercorn Abercorn (Gaelic: ''Obar Chùirnidh'', Old English: ''Æbbercurnig'') is a village and civil parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around west of South Queensferry. The parish had a p ...

The origin of the railway station name may be after the champion thoroughbred horse

or after Abercorn Homestead as a gesture to “Old Boss”, Robert David Hamilton owner of the property. Abercorn State School opened on 3 May 1927. Langley Flat Provisional School opened on 5 September 1927. In 1929 it became Langley Flat State School. It closed on 28 January 1947. A post office opened in Abercorn about February 1928; it closed on 11 June 1986. Goomaran Creek Provisional School opened on 29 April 1931. In 1932 it became Goomaran Creek State School. It closed on 9 May 1948. Glen Loch State School opened on 27 August 1931 and closed in 1944. It was on the Burnett Highway (approx ). In the , the locality of Abercorn had a population of 46 people.

Education

Abercorn State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 957 Wuruma Dam Road (). In 2012, the school had an enrolment of 21 students in a single classroom with 3 teachers (1.5 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 18 students with 3 teachers (1 full-time equivalent) and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). There are no secondary schools in Abercorn; the nearest government secondary schools are Eidsvold State School in Eidsvold to the south and Monto State High School in

Monto Monto was the nickname for the one-time red light district in the northeast of Dublin, Ireland. The Monto was roughly the area bounded by Talbot Street, Amiens Street, Gardiner Street and Seán McDermott Street (formerly Gloucester Street) in ...

to the north.

Attractions

Abercorn is the gateway to

Wuruma Dam Wuruma Dam was constructed across the Nogo River in the upper Burnett River Catchment 48km north-west of Eidsvold for irrigation & town water supply for Eidsvold, Mundubbera and Gayndah. The dam wall is of mass concrete gravity construction whi ...

used for water sports and fishing.

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