Cynthia is a rural town and

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in the

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, Australia. In the , the locality of Cynthia had a population of 13 people.

Geography

The

Burnett River The Burnett River is a river in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Course and features The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta and east ...

bounds the locality to the east. The

Burnett Highway The Burnett Highway is an inland rural highway located in Queensland, Australia. The highway runs from its junction with the Bruce Highway at Gracemere, Queensland, Gracemere, just south of Rockhampton, Queensland, Rockhampton, to the D'Aguilar ...

passes through the locality from the south to the north-east. Its intersection with the Waruma Dam Road is the official location of the former town but there is no settlement there today. The now-closed Monto Branch Railway passed from north to south through the locality passing through the former town, which was served by the now-abandoned Cynthia railway station ().

History

The town and locality take their name from the railway station name given by

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on 19 June 1925, using the name of the surrounding Cynthia Parish of the County of Yarrol. Cynthia State School opened on 30 January 1928. It closed on 31 May 1954. It was also in the former town on the western side of Abercorn Road (

) to the south-east of the former railway station ().

Demographics

In the , the locality of Cynthiahad a population of 31 people. In the , the locality of Cynthia had a population of 13 people.

Education

There are no schools in Cynthia. The nearest primary school is Abercorn State School in neighbouring

Abercorn Abercorn ( Gaelic: ''Obar Chùirnidh'', Old English: ''Æbbercurnig'') is a village and civil parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around west of South Queensferry. The parish had a ...

to the north. The nearest secondary school is Eidsvold State School (to Year 12) in Eidsvold to the south.

References

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