Boolburra is a rural town and

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in the

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, Australia. In the , the locality of Boolburra had a population of 34 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the north by the Fitzroy River, to the east by the Gogango Range, to the south by 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 ...

and to the west by the Dawson River. Boolburra has one named peak, Round Hill in the east of the locality () at above sea level. The Capricorn Highway enters the locality from the east (

Gogango Gogango is a rural town and locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Gogango had a population of 184 people. Geography Gogango is in Central Queensland. The Capricorn Highway traverses the south of t ...

) and exits to the south-west (

Duaringa Duaringa is a rural town in the Central Highlands Region and a locality split between the Central Highlands Region and the Aboriginal Shire of Woorabinda in Central Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Duaringa had a population of 26 ...

). The

Central Western railway line The Central Western railway line is a railway line in Queensland, Australia. It was opened in a series of sections between 1867 and 1928. It commences at Rockhampton and extends west to Winton. History Following the separation of Queensl ...

enters the locality from the east (Gogango) and exits to the west (Duaringa), with the locality being served by three railway stations (from west to east): * Boolburra railway station () * Edungalba railway station () * Tunnel railway station () The town of Boolburra was laid out immediately north of the Boolburra railway station, but there are no buildings today. The town of Edungalba was laid out immediately south of the Edungalba railway station, but there are only a few buildings today. There is some crop growing in the west of the locality along the Dawson River, but the land use is predominantly

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation.

History

Boolburra Provisional School opened on 31 August 1874. In 1883, a school reserve of was proclaimed, just north of the Boolburra railway station bounded by Station Road, Dawson Road, and Thomas Street (). Patrick Aloysius Murtagh was school master at the school for 30 years from circa 1883 to circa 1913. He also conducted a agricultural farm named Gainsford at the same time. On 1 January 1909, the school became Boolburra State School. It closed on 22 April 1926. Herbert's Creek State School opened on 26 April 1915, but was renamed Edungalba State School in 1918. It closed on 4 February 1974. It was not in the town of Edungalba, but slightly north-west of the town between Herbert Creek and the railway line (approx ).

Demographics

In the , the locality of Boolburra had a population of 24 people. In the , the locality of Boolburra had a population of 34 people.

Education

There are no schools in Boolburra. The nearest government primary schools are Gogango State School in neighbouring

to the east and Duaringa State School in neighbouring

to the west. There are no nearby secondary schools; the options are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding school.

References

External links

* {{authority control Towns in Queensland Central Highlands Region Localities in Queensland