Yarraman, Queensland
town in Queensland, Australia
Yarraman is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Yarraman had a population of 1,127 people.
Geography
Yarraman is located 181 kilometres (112 mi) northwest of the state capital, Brisbane on the junction of the New England and D'Aguilar highways.
Yarraman is set in a fertile valley and produces timber, grain and beef and dairy goods, which it exports to larger cities.
Yarraman is surrounded by the various components of the fragmentary Bunya Mountains and Yarraman Important Bird Area which contains the largest remaining population of the vulnerable black-breasted button-quail.
In the far west the Meandu Mine extracts coal for the nearby power station.
History
The name Yarraman means horse in the Port Jackson Pidgin English spread by Aboriginal stockmen in eastern Australia. It might derive from word yira or yera meaning large teeth.
The creek at Yarraman was used in the 1870s as a place for local graziers and stockmen to meet and trade cattle. The township was established in the late 1870s.
“Yarraman, Queensland” enters the record as town in Queensland, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yarraman, Queensland and town can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3571889. Authority coordinates are -26.839, 151.977. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.
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