Evanslea is a rural

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in the

Toowoomba Region The Toowoomba Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs part of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by several previous local government areas with histories extending back to the early 1900s and beyo ...

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 Evanslea had a population of 41 people. Norillee is a neighbourhood ().

Geography

Evanslea has the following mountains: * Mount Russell () * Mount Taylor () Evanslea railway station is an abandoned railway station on the closed

Cecil Plains railway line The Cecil Plains Branch was a branch railway line on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. It branched from the Western railway line at Oakey and terminated at Cecil Plains, a distance of . It operated from 1914 to 1994. History On 5 D ...

(). The land use is predominantly crop growing with some

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...

on native vegetation, mostly in the south-east of the locality.

Road infrastructure

The

Toowoomba–Cecil Plains Road Toowoomba–Cecil Plains Road is a continuous road route in the Toowoomba region of Queensland, Australia. Most of the road is not signed with any route number, but a short section near is part of State Route 82. Toowoomba–Cecil Plains Roa ...

runs through from east to west.

History

The locality takes its name from the Evanslea railway station, which was named after Charles Barnard Evans, Commissioner for Railways in Queensland from 1911 to 1918. The railway station on the Cecil Plains railway line opened in September 1915 with Evanslea as its terminus. It was subsequently extended to Cecil Plains. The neighbourhood of Norillee takes its name from the Norillee railway station (in neighbouring Bongeen), which was named by the

Queensland Railways 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 ...

on12 December 1918. It is an Aboriginal name meaning ''mountain ridge'' or ''series of peaks''. In the Evanslea had a population of 41 people.

Economy

There are a number of homesteads in the locality: * Mount Russell () * Poplar () * Prairie View () * Rockwood () * Shiralee () * Valhalla ()

References

{{reflist Toowoomba Region Localities in Queensland