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Blackall is a rural town and locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. [3] [4] The town is the service centre for the Blackall-Tambo Region. The dominant industry in the area is grazing with over 70 homesteads in the locality (as at 2020). [5] [6] In the 2021 census, the locality of Blackall had a population of 1,365 people. [1]
On 20 May 1880, the urban part of Blackall was excised from the Kargoolnah Division to create a municipal Borough of Blackall. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its first councillors were elected in July 1880. On 31 March 1903, with the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902 , the Borough of Blackall became the Town of Blackall, while Kargoolnah Division became ...
The Blackall-Tambo Region is a local government area in Central West Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by two previous local government areas dating from the 1870s. For the financial year 2010/11 it had an approximate operating budget of A$30m. [3] In the 2021 census, the Blackall-Tambo Region had a population of 1,905 ...
Tambo is in Central West Queensland, Australia, on the banks of the Barcoo River.Tambo is 101 kilometres (63 mi) southeast of the town of Blackall via the Landsborough Highway, 118 kilometres (73 mi) north of Augathella, 201 kilometres (125 mi) north of Charleville, 736 kilometres (457 mi) north west of Toowoomba and approximately 862 kilometres (536 mi) north west of the state capital, Brisbane.
Blackall was surveyed and gazetted as a town in 1868. It served as a commercial and social centre for pastoral stations in the surrounding area and was the major western town until eclipsed by Barcaldine, which was founded to serve the terminus of the Central Western Railway in 1886. Freemasonry was established in Blackall in May 1887 when a ...
Reconstruction of the Black Stump (the original was burned down), Blackall, 2019. The town of Blackall, Queensland makes the following claim to the origin of the expression. In 1887 a group of surveyors arrived in Blackall (near the centre of Queensland, over 1,000 kilometres west of Brisbane) and established an Astro Station on this site to ...
The Shire of Blackall was a local government area located in central Queensland around the town of Blackall.It covered an area of 16,366.8 square kilometres (6,319.3 sq mi), and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 2008, when it amalgamated with neighbouring Shire of Tambo to form the Blackall-Tambo Region.
Blackall–Jericho Road is a continuous 121-kilometre (75 mi) road route in the Blackall-Tambo and Barcaldine local government areas of Queensland, Australia. [1] It is a state-controlled regional road (number 441), rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS).