Borallon, Queensland

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Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Borallon is a rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the Template:CensusAU, Borallon had a population of 90 people.[1]

Geography

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Burtons Bridge, 2014

The locality is bounded to the north-west and west by the Brisbane River, which then flows through the locality, and then bounds the locality to the south-east and east, putting the locality on both sides of the Brisbane River.[3] Burtons Bridge on E Summervilles Road is one of the crossing points for the river (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[4][5][6]

History

The locality takes its name from a railway station, which was in turned named by Queensland Railway Commissioner Francis Curnow after his birthplace near St Ives in Cornwall, England.[2]

Borallon Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a receiving office had been open from 1922) and closed in 1974.[7]

Demographics

In the Template:CensusAU, Borallon had a population of 81 people.[8]

In the Template:CensusAU, Borallon had a population of 90 people.[1]

Education

There are no schools in Borallon. The nearest government primary school is Glamorgan Vale State School in Glamorgan Vale to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Ipswich State High School in Brassall, Ipswich, to the south-east.[9]

Facilities

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References

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