Harlin is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Harlin had a population of 173 people.

Geography

Harlin is a small town in South East Queensland. The town is on the Brisbane Valley Highway and the

Brisbane River The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Go ...

, north-west of the state capital, Brisbane.

History

The town was named after Charlotte (née Harlin), wife of John Dunn Moore of the Colinton pastoral property. Their son William John Harlin Moore was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Harlin Post Office opened by September 1907 (a receiving office had been open from 1905) and closed in 1989. Harlin Provisional School opened on 1908. On 1 January 1909, it became Harlin State School. The town was marooned during the

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. Over 40 travellers were stranded by the dangerous and rising flood waters of the Brisbane River and the Ivory and Maronghi Creeks. They were housed by the publicans and owners of the Harlin Hotel and the Caltex service station from 9 January 2011, until the flooded creeks and rivers subsided. At the , Harlin and the surrounding area had a population of 534. In the , the locality of Harlin had a population of 173 people. On 1 February 2018, Harlin's postcode changed from 4306 to 4314.

Heritage listings

Brisbane Valley Rail Trail Harlin Rail Bridge 2011

Harlin 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: * over Ivory (formerly Maronghi) Creek:

Harlin Rail Bridge Harlin Rail Bridge is a heritage-listed railway bridge (now ruins) over Ivory (formerly Maronghi) Creek at Harlin, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Railways and built in 1910 by Queensland Railways. It ...

* Sinnamons Lane:

Yimbun Railway Tunnel Yimbun Railway Tunnel is a heritage-listed tunnel at Sinnamons Lane, Harlin, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Railways and built from 1909 to 1910 by Queensland Railways. It was added to the Queensland Heri ...

Education

Harlin State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Brisbane Valley Highway (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 65 students with 5 teachers (4 full-time equivalent) and 5 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 58 students with 6 teachers (4 full-time equivalent) and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). There are no secondary schools in Harlin. The nearest government secondary schools are Toogoolawah State High School in

Toogoolawah Toogoolawah ( ) is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toogoolawah had a population of 1,279 people. Geography Toogoolawah is in South East Queensland. Toogoolawah is a centre for gliding and parach ...

to the south, Kilcoy State High School in Kilcoy to the east, and Nanango State High School in Nanango to the north-west.

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* {{authority control Towns in Queensland Suburbs of Somerset Region Localities in Queensland