Jimna

History

Duungidjawu (also known as Wakka Wakka) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Duungidjawu country. The Duungidjawu language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Somerset Region, particularly the towns of Kilcoy and Moore. The name Jimna is believed to be an Aboriginal word djimna meaning place of leeches. In 1887, of land were resumed from the Yabba pastoral run for the establishment of small farms. The land was offered for selection on 17 April 1887. Monsildale Provisional School opened on 2 June 1913. In 1923, the school was moved and renamed Foxlowe Provisional School. On 25 June 1926 it was renamed Jimna Provisional School. On 1 October 1934, it became Jimna State School. It was mothballed on 31 December 2006 and closed on 31 December 2009. (In about 1941, a separate Monsildale State School was opened but closed about 1961.) It was at 21 School Road (). The Jimna school site was developed as a camping ground retaining the school buildings and other facilities. The school's website was archived. Commercial loggers Hancock and Gore moved their sawmill from Monsildale to what would become Jimna in 1922. The sawmill was burnt down in 1947. When sawmilling contracted in the mid 1970s, the town's population reduced significantly.

Geography

Jimna is situated on the Jimna Range approximately 1690 feet (515.11 metres) above sea level. Jimna Diggings is a neighbourhood in the east of the locality, an area historically used for gold mining (). Jimna has the following mountains (from north to south): * Summer Mountain (), rising to above sea level * Mount Rollman () * Mount Cabinet () * Mount Constance () * Mount Langley () * Mount Denmark () * Jinker Hill () * Mount Adelaide () * Mount Lofty () * Grey Bluff () * Little Bluff () * Red Bluff ()

Most-observed species

• Lewin's Honeyeater

  Meliphaga lewinii (Swainson, 1837) · Aves
  592
• Eastern Yellow Robin

  Eopsaltria australis (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  463
• Eastern Whipbird

  Psophodes olivaceus (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  442
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  419
• Bell Miner

  Manorina melanophrys (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  412
• Laughing Kookaburra

  Dacelo novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783) · Aves
  394
• Gray Shrikethrush

  Colluricincla harmonica (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  389
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

  Cacatua galerita (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  371

Most recent

• M 4.9 — 2025-08-15
  12 km ESE of Cherbourg, Australia
• M 3.6 — 2005-03-07
  36 km WNW of Kingaroy, Australia