Eulo, Queensland
town in Queensland, Australia
Eulo ( YOU-low) is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Paroo, Queensland, Australia. It is known for its opal mining. In the 2021 census, the locality of Eulo had a population of 94 people.
Geography
Eulo is 64 kilometres (40 mi) west of Cunnamulla and 887 kilometres (551 mi) west of Brisbane.
The town is located beside and to the east of the Paroo River which flows in a roughly north–south direction. This results in flooding events that affects people, livestock, and wildlife. With Cyclone Audrey in mid-January 1964, the town experienced 11 inches (280 mm) of rain in one twenty-four hour period, which was double the previous record of 1887. Former-Cyclone Dianne saw flood waters came south from Longreach, resulting in the Paroo breaching the town's levee on Saturday, 29 March 2025. Occupants of only three houses were impacted, and sixty persons in the town otherwise unaffected.
The Bulloo Developmental Road (part of the Adventure Way) connects Eulo to Cunnamulla to the east and Thargomindah to the west.
“Eulo, Queensland” enters the record as town in Queensland, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eulo, Queensland and town can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1373889. VIAF identifies the subject as 3077148574306924430008. Authority coordinates are -28.167, 145.050. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1964, 1887 and 2025.
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This entry incorporates text from “Eulo, Queensland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.