Yargullen
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 28.6 km2 (11.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 27 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.944/km2 (2.45/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4401 | ||||||||||||
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Yargullen is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Yargullen had a population of 27 people.[1]
Geography
[edit | edit source]The Jondaryan Mount Tyson Road enters the locality from the north (Jondaryan) and exits to the south (Mount Irving).[3]
Woodview is a neighbourhood in the south-east of the locality (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).[4]
The land use is a mixture of dry and irrigated crop growing.[5]
History
[edit | edit source]The locality takes its name from the Yargullen railway station (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) on the former Cecil Plains railway line, which was named by the Queensland Railways Department on 5 August 1915. Yargullen is an Aboriginal word meaning waterhole on plain.[2][6][7]
Woodview Provisional School opened on 3 May 1886. It became Woodview State School on 19 January 1891 and closed on 31 December 1974. Unofficially it was known as Happy Valley School.[8] The school was located on the Woodview School Road (approx Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).[6][7]
Demographics
[edit | edit source]In the 2016 census, Yargullen had a population of 25 people.[9]
In the 2021 census, Yargullen had a population of 27 people.[1]
Education
[edit | edit source]There are no schools in Yargullen. The nearest government primary schools are:[10]
- Jondaryan State School in neighbouring Jondaryan to the north
- Oakey State School in Oakey to the north-east
- Biddeston State School in Biddeston to the south-east
- Mount Tyson State School in Mount Tyson to the south
The nearest government secondary school is Oakey State High School in Oakey.[10]
There is also a Catholic primary school in Oakey.[10]
References
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