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Blackall–Jericho Road is a continuous road route in the Blackall-Tambo and Barcaldine local government areas of
Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
, Australia. It is a state-controlled regional road (number 441), rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS).


Route description

The road commences as Clematis Street at an intersection with the
Landsborough Highway Landsborough Highway is a highway in western Queensland, Australia, running in the northwest–southeast direction from Morven to Cloncurry. The Landsborough Highway runs through vast tracts of land that was once occupied by William Landsboro ...
(known as Shamrock Street) in , in the Blackall-Tambo region. It runs north-east before turning east as Ivy Street, which becomes Blackall–Jericho Road as it leaves the town. It turns north-east and continues to the locality and regional boundary, where it enters the former locality of , now a part of the locality of , in the Barcaldine region. While passing through Blackall the road runs through the village of
Yalleroi Yalleroi is a rural town in the north of the locality of Blackall in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the se ...
and passes the exit to Narbethong Road to the north-west. Continuing north-east to the town of Jericho the road enters from the west as Davy Street, turns north as Edison Street, and ends at an intersection with the
Capricorn Highway The Capricorn Highway is located in Central Queensland, Australia, and links the city of Rockhampton with western Queensland. The highway is long, and joins the Landsborough Highway at Barcaldine. Formerly National Route 66, Queensland began ...
(known as Darwin Street). The road is now fully sealed, with the last completed in March 2022. For travel to and from the Blackall district this road is part of the shortest route to east coast centres from to It is shorter than travelling on highways via .


History

The Blackall region was explored in 1846 by explorer Sir Thomas Mitchell and his party.ADB: Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (1792 – 1855)
Retrieved 2010-5-1 In 1856,
Augustus Gregory Sir Augustus Charles Gregory (1 August 1819 – 25 June 1905) was an English-born Australian explorer and surveyor. Between 1846 and 1858 he undertook four major expeditions. He was the first Surveyor-General of Queensland. He was appointed a ...
passed through the area noting that the landscape was a vast plain lacking vegetation, in contrast to Mitchell's description of good country. Blackall was named by Surveyor Abraham H. May after Sir Samuel Blackall, the second
Governor of Queensland The governor of Queensland is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in the state of Queensland. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia, governor-general at the national level, the governor Governors of ...
. During the 1860s Blackall developed as a service centre for the surrounding
pastoral The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. The target au ...
properties. A survey of town allotments was conducted in 1868. The dominant industry in the area is grazing with over 70 homesteads reported to be in the district in 2020. A substantial number of these properties are adjacent to or accessed from Blackall–Jericho Road. One such property is Paradise Downs, which welcomes tourists for guided tours and sightseeing. Yalleroi pastoral run is believed to have been established in the 1870s. It is believed there was a pastoral run called Mexico in the 1880s in the area to the south of Jericho. The first exploration of the Jericho area by Europeans was also by Major Thomas Mitchell who passed through in 1846. By the 1850s settlers had moved in. When the first survey for the Jericho to Blackall railway line was done in 1884 the road did not exist. The railway was approved in 1905 and opened in 1908. It was closed in 2005 as it could no longer compete with road transport.


Major intersections

All distances are from Google Maps.


See also

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References

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