Wyaralong is a rural

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in the

Scenic Rim Region The Scenic Rim Region is a local government areas of Queensland, local government area (LGA) in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland, South East Queensland, Australia, and is located approximately 80 kilometres due south of Brisban ...

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. In the , Wyaralong had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

The

Wyaralong Dam The Wyaralong Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with an un-gated spillway across the Teviot Brook that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for supply of potable water for the Scenic ...

was built across

Teviot Brook Teviot Brook is a waterway in South East Queensland, Australia. It rises in the Main Range at Carneys Creek, Queensland, Carneys Creek and joins the Logan River at Cedar Grove, Queensland, Cedar Grove. It is part of the Clarence Moreton Basin, ...

, a tributary of the ''

Logan River The Logan River (Yugambeh dialect, Yugambeh: ''Dugulumba'') is a perennial river in the Scenic Rim Region, Scenic Rim, City of Logan, Logan and City of Gold Coast, Gold Coast local government areas of the South East Queensland, South East region ...

''. The dam wall is partly in Wyaralong and partly in neighbouring Allenview (). Its impoundment, Lake Wyaralong, is mostly within Wyaralong but some is within Allenview where the public access area is located. The dam wall is wide. The catchment area of the dam is . The dam can hold up to of water. Mount Moy is in the south of the locality (), rising to above sea level. The Beaudesert–Boonah Road (State Route 90) runs through the locality from south-east ( Bromelton) to south ( Coulson). It passes to the south of the lake. 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, except for some areas of plantation forestry.

History

Wyaralong Provisional School opened on 30 June 1924 but closed in 1929 due to low numbers of students. It operated from a cottage on the Wyaralong pastoral station provided by Mr and Mrs Colin John Campbell Philp. Wyaralong State School opened on 14 February 1938. It was built on of land donated by Colin Philp. Miss T. D. Dengle was the first teacher. The school was officially opened on Friday 11 March 1938 by Minister for Public Instruction, Frank Cooper. The school closed in 1949 but re-opened in 1956. It closed permanently on 18 July 1965. The school was located south of (the now) Old Beaudesert Road (approx ); the route of the road between

Boonah Boonah is a rural town and locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Boonah had a population of 2,557 people. Geography The town is positioned near the Fassifern Valley, McPherson Range and Main Ra ...

and Beaudesert has been changed to avoid the inundation created by the dam. In 1940, the area was used for air gunnery practice exercises, the first in Queensland. Wyaralong Dam was completed in 2011.

Demographics

In the , Wyaralong had a population of 20 people. In the , Wyaralong had "no people or a very low population".

Economy

There are a number of homesteads in the locality: * Alanmere () * Banjora () * Glen Retreal () * The Overflow () * Wyaralong ()

Education

There are no schools in Wyaralong. The nearest government primary schools are Roadvale State School in neighbouring Roadvale to the west, Gleneagle State School in Gleneagle to the east, and Boonah State School in

to the south-west. The nearest government secondary schools are Boonah State High School in Boonah to the south-west and Beaudesert State High School in Beaudesert to the east.

References

{{Scenic Rim Region Scenic Rim Region Localities in Queensland