Euthulla is a rural

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in the Maranoa Region,

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, Australia. In the , Euthulla had a population of 370 people.

Geography

The locality is loosely bounded by Bungeworgorai Creek to the west. The

Carnarvon Highway Carnarvon Highway is a state highway in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, linking the township of Rolleston in Queensland's Central Highlands Region, via the town of St George, eventually to Moree in northern New South Wales. It is th ...

enters the locality from the south ( Orange Hill) and exits to the north ( Eumamurrin).

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is in the east of the locality () with Mount Bassett () rising to above sea level. There are a number of neighbourhoods within the locality, which take their names from railway sidings on the now-closed

Roma-to-Injune railway line The Injune Branch Railway was a railway in Queensland, Australia. After the Western Line reached Roma in south-western Queensland in September 1880, there was a plan to foster land settlement as far as Mount Hutton about to the north. A bran ...

which ran through the west of the location along the now Oralla Road. From Roma heading north, the neighbourhoods/stations were: * Tineen () *Minka () *Euthulla () * Nullawurt () * Yingerbay ( There is another neighbourhood in the centre of the locality (not associated with the railway): Tabers () The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some cropping. Most of the residential areas are just outside the boundaries of

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History

The locality takes its name ''Euthulla'' from the railway station name, given by

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on 30 November 1916, supposedly an Aboriginal word, meaning unknown. The neighbourhood ''Minka'' also takes it name from a railway station assigned by the Railways Department on 29 April 1915, and is an Aboriginal word referring to a species of tree. The neighbourhood ''Nullawurt'' also takes its name from a railway station and is an Aboriginal word for an ''

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'' (wattle) species of tree. It was assigned from 11 November 1915, from a suggestion from the Orallo Farmers and Settlers Association. The neighbourhood name ''Tineen'' also comes from a railway station name, assigned on 16 October 1926, being an Aboriginal word, meaning '' mosquito''. The neighbourhood Yingerbay is again the name of a railway station assigned on 11 November 1915, and taken from a pastoral run established in 1854, from the

Mandandanji language Bidjara, also spelt Bidyara or Pitjara, is an Australian Aboriginal language. In 1980, it was spoken by twenty elders in Queensland between the towns of Tambo and Augathella, or the Warrego and Langlo Rivers. There are many dialects of th ...

, meaning a ''place of freshwater crayfish ( yabbie)''. Euthulla Provisional School opened circa 1889. On 1 January 1909 it became Euthulla State School and closed circa 1921. In 1927 it reopened but closed finally in 1931. In the , Euthulla had a population of 370 people.

Education

There are no schools in the locality. The nearest primary and secondary school is Roma State College in Roma to the south.

References

{{Maranoa Region Maranoa Region Localities in Queensland