Nagoorin
town in Queensland, Australia
Nagoorin is a rural town in Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It is one of four small townships within the locality of Boyne Valley along with Ubobo, Builyan, and Many Peaks.
History
Nargoorin State School opened on 18 October 1915.
Nagoorin Post Office opened by 1920 (a receiving office had been open from 1910, originally known as Degalil) and closed by 1982.
Lake View Provisional School opened on 9 February 1910 but closed on 31 June 1917. On 27 February 1920 it reopened. It closed on 31 December 1936.
Nagoorin State School opened on 18 October 15.
Heritage listings
Nagoorin has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
Norton Goldfield, Norton Road
Education
Nagoorin State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 2 Ubobo Street (24.3516°S 151.2999°E / -24.3516; 151.2999 (Nagoorin State School)). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 12 students with 2 teachers (1 full-time equivalent) and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent).
“Nagoorin” enters the record as town in Queensland, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nagoorin, town and Queensland 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 Jul 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6958912. Authority coordinates are -24.367, 151.300. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1915, 1920, 1910 and 1982.
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This entry incorporates text from “Nagoorin” 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.