Curra, Queensland
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Curra Country Club
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 Curra
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| Coordinates | 26°04′0″S 152°35′0″E / 26.06667°S 152.58333°ECoordinates: 26°04′0″S 152°35′0″E / 26.06667°S 152.58333°E |
| Population | 1,372 (2006 census) |
| Postcode(s) | 4570 |
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| LGA(s) | Gympie Region |
| State electorate(s) | Maryborough |
| Federal Division(s) | Wide Bay |
Curra is a locality in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. It was once part of Shire of Tiaro but is now within the Gympie Region local government area. It also belongs to the non-functional administrative unit known as the County of March. It is situated on the Bruce Highway, north of Gympie. The North Coast railway line passes through the town.
At the 2006 census, Curra had a population of 1,372. It is zoned rural/residential with working pastoral farms and small acreages. Curra is at the northern end of a stretch of the Bruce Highway which starts in the south near Cooroy and is considered to be one of the most dangerous of Queensland roads.
Curra (Aboriginal name 'Kurui' means grey forest possum). The local Aboriginal tribe of the Gympie region and the Mary River Valley are the Kabi Tribe of the Kabi Kabi First Nation language group.
Parts of Curra are beside the Mary River (Kabi name 'Monaboola' meaning Wide Bay River, named in 1848 in honour of the wife of Governor Fitzroy who had died in 1847), and the railway to the north. The first landholder owner was Walter Hay whose cattle station homestead in 1859 was named "Currie" and later changed to Curra.
During the gold rush era starting in 1867, Curra was a stopover depot at Palmer's Stockholm Hotel at the Nine Mile for travellers between Maryborough and Gympie using Cobb & Co coaches. Curra School was opened in 1893, established to cater for the increase in population and closed in 1961. Today, there is a school bus which transports the local school children to the Gympie area. There was a mine in the Curra Estate Road area and there is a working limestone quarry.
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