Jimbour, Queensland

Jimbour is a small village in the north of the region of Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. It lies about 236 kilometers from Brisbane and 109 km from Toowoomba away. The nearest town is Dalby. 2006 were counted in Jimbour and around 185 people.

Name

The name of the place goes back to the rancher Thomas Bell, who built the historic Jimbour House. He heard Gimba or Jimba by local Aborigines of the Kamilaroi and assumed that there good pastures: means ( German good grazing land ). A similar word in the language of the Kamilaroi Thimba means sheep.

Description

In Jimbour the listed Jimbour House is Made of sandstone with several outbuildings, which is one of the earliest buildings in Darling Downs. It is an example of early European settlement and livestock of Queensland.

Other buildings are a school, town hall, butchers and a post office.

Others

In Jimbour the Dingo Fence, leading up to the 5412 km Great Australian Bight begins.

The Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt started from this place his first expedition from 1844 to 1845, which took him over 4,800 kilometers into the Northern Territory to Port Essington.

Not far from Jimbour is the Jimbour quarry.