Coorumba

History

Coorumba was formerly a stopping place on the Innisfail-Nerada Tramway. It closed on 14 December 1979. It was located along the tramway (approx ). After its closure, the Coorumba Progress Association was allowed to continue to use the school building, However, when the progress association disbanded in 1986 and given that the school building was in a poor state of repair, the Queensland Government decided to sell the site, since it was not possible to return it to the original donor as the Queensland National Bank no longer existed.

Geography

The Johnstone River forms the northern boundary of the locality and the South Johnstone River forms the southern boundary. The land is almost entirely freehold and used for agriculture, including cropping (particularly sugarcane) on the flatter land and grazing on the more sloping land. The Palmerston Highway passes through the locality from east to west and there is a cane tramway to transport the harvested sugarcane to the South Johnstone sugar mill. Pioneer North Queensland Pty Ltd operate the Innisfail Hard Rock Quarry in the north of the locality, with a production capacity of 150 tonnes per hour. Fishers Falls is a waterfall on Berner Creek () in the north of the locality. Beehive Island is an island () in the South Johnstone River on the southern boundary with Mamu.

Most-observed species

• Southern Cassowary

  Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,262
• Australasian Figbird

  Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 · Aves
  913
• Masked Lapwing

  Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  846
• Metallic Starling

  Aplonis metallica (Temminck, 1824) · Aves
  804
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  726
• Artamus leucorhynchos

  Artamus leucorhynchos · Aves
  725
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  631
• Common Myna

  Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  627

Most recent

• M 3.6 — 2011-03-15
  30 km NE of Innisfail Estate, Australia