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Quilpie (/ ˈ k w ɪ l p i / KWIL-pee) is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Quilpie, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Quilpie had a population of 530 people. [1] The town is the administrative centre of the Quilpie Shire local government area. The town of Toompine is also within the locality.
Location: 98.3 km (61 mi) NNE of Quilpie; 187 ... Adavale is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Quilpie, Queensland, ... Adavale Post Office opened on 1 ...
Eromanga Post Office opened by October 1902 (a receiving office had been open from 1892). [7] Eromanga Provisional School opened on 5 July 1897 but closed in 1908. In 1910 it reopened as Eromanga State School but closed again on 28 February 1911. The school reopened on 23 October 1917 but closed again.
A post office was established in 1870 and a telegraph line connected the town to Cunnamulla in 1881. [23] Thargomindah Provisional School opened on 1 April 1884. In 1892 it became Thargomindah State School. [24] The 1890s saw the town prosper as the service and administrative centre of a pastoral district. [23]
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The Shire of Quilpie is a local government area in South West Queensland, Australia. It covers an area of 67,415 square kilometres (26,029 sq mi), and its administrative centre is the town of Quilpie. The dominant industry is grazing. Opal fields are also worked within the shire. In the 2021 census, the Shire of Quilpie had a population of 698 ...
The former post office, circa 1880. A postal service was established at Charters Towers in 1872 following the discovery of gold in 1871. Jupiter Mosman is credited with finding gold near Towers Hill, with the goldfields proclaimed in 1872, and Charters Towers rapidly proclaimed a municipality in 1877, and a city in April 1909.
These publications were produced from 1868 to 1949 on an annual basis to enable people in Queensland to be contacted. [1] They were produced initially by the Queensland Post Office but later they were outsourced to a commercial publisher. They were discontinued because people preferred to use telephone directories once telephones became widely ...