Bungil is a
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
Maranoa Region,
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 , Bungil had a population of 27 people.
Geography
The western boundary of the locality roughly follows Bungil Creek, while the
Warrego Highway and
Western railway line form part of the northern boundary. Bungeworgorai Creek flows through the locality from the northwest (
Bungeworgorai
Bungeworgorai is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bungeworgorai had a population of 78 people.
Geography
The Western railway line and Warrego Highway pass along the southern boundary of the locality. B ...
) to the south-east becoming a tributary of Bungil Creek in neighbouring
Tingun.
The land is predominantly developed for cattle grazing.
History
The locality takes its name from the parish, which is believed to be an Aboriginal word "boo-nga-gill" where "boo" means ''grass'', "nga" means ''with'' and "gill" means ''water''.
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Heritage listings
Bungil has a number of heritage-listed
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many ...
sites, including:
* Warrego Highway: Mount Abundance Homestead
Education
There are no schools in the locality. The nearest primary and secondary school is Roma State College in Roma
Roma or ROMA may refer to:
Places Australia
* Roma, Queensland, a town
** Roma Airport
** Roma Courthouse
** Electoral district of Roma, defunct
** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council
*Roma Street, Brisbane, a ...
to the north-east.
References
{{Maranoa Region
Maranoa Region
Localities in Queensland