Yangan is a rural town and

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in the

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, Australia. In the , the locality of Yangan had a population of 404 people.

Geography

The town is in the centre of the locality. The Warwick-Yangan Road enters the locality from the west ( Swan Creek) and terminates in the town. The Yangan-Killarney Road commences in the town and exits the locality to the south-east ( Emu Vale). The locality is traversed by Swan Creek, a tributary of the

Condamine River The Condamine River, part of the Balonne catchment that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin, drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, an area of sub-coastal southern Queensland, Australia. The river is approximately 500 kilometres (3 ...

; it enters the locality from the north-east ( Swanfels) and flows just south of the town and then exits to the south-west of the locality (Swan Creek).

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is extracted from quarries south of the town. Apart from this, the land use is a mixture of crop growing and

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on native vegetation.

History

The district was known as Upper Swan Creek, but in 1887 took the name ''Yangan'' from its railway station. The name ''Yangan'' is reported to be an Aboriginal word meaning ''proceed'' or ''go away''. Swan Creek (No. 2) School opened on 27 May 1874. In 1878, it was renamed Swan Creek Upper State School. In 1887 it became Yangan State School. The Killarney railway line opened from

Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined wit ...

to Emu Vale on 2 June 1884 which included the Mount Sturt railway station () and Yangan railway station (), both of which are within the present-day boundaries of Yangan. The line closed on 1 May 1964. On Monday 15 May 1905, the Bishop of Brisbane

St Clair Donaldson St Clair George Alfred Donaldson (11 February 1863 – 7 December 1935) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the first Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia. Early life Donaldson was the third son of Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson and h ...

consecrated the new Anglican church, St Peter's. The architect was Conrad Dornbusch and the contractor was Mr J. Purcell. The final service was held on

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25 March 2018 and a deconsecration service was held on Saturday 21 July 2018.

Demographics

In the , the locality of Yangan had a population of 386 people. In the , the locality of Yangan had a population of 404 people.

Heritage listings

Yangan has a number of

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...

sites, including: * Yangan School of Arts, 7-9 King Street () * Yangan Masonic Hall, 36 King Street ()

Education

Yangan State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 49A King Street (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 90 students with 7 teachers (6 full-time equivalent) and 7 non-teaching staff (4 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 96 students with 7 teachers (6 full-time equivalent) and 7 non-teaching staff (4 full-time equivalent). There are no secondary schools in Yangan. The nearest government secondary schools are

Warwick State High School Warwick State High School is a heritage-listed state high school at 15 Palmerin Street, Warwick, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Thomas Pye and Block A was built from 1914 to 1915. It is also known as Warwick Te ...

(to Year 12) in

to the west and Killarney State School (to Year 10) in

Killarney Killarney ( ; , meaning 'church of sloes') is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is on the northeastern shore of Lough Leane, part of Killarney National Park, and is home to St Mary's Cathedral, Killar ...

to the south-east.

Amenities

The

Southern Downs Regional Council The Southern Downs Region is a local government area (LGA) in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The region runs along the state's southern boundary with New South Wales and was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shire of War ...

operates a

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service which visits Yangan Park in King Street.

References

External links

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Town map of Yangan, 1990
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