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Peranga
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City facts
Overview
Peranga is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Peranga had a population of 98 people.
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History
The name Peranga derives from the name of an outstation on Rosalie Plains pastoral run, assigned when the town was surveyed in 1911. Peranga State School opened in 1915, closing on 30 July 1973. On Sunday 25 March 1917, Archbishop James Duhig officially opened and dedicated Our Lady of the Annunciation Catholic Church. It was closed in December 2024 by Bishop Ken Howell. It was at 24-30 Church Street (). The Peranga & District Bowls Club opened in 1955. The Anglican Church of St John the Evangelist was consecrated circa 1959. Its last service was held on 13 May 1961 due to a reduction in the congregation. Peranga Methodist Church opened on 25 June 1961. When the Methodist Church amalgamated into the Uniting Church in Australia, it became Peranga Uniting Church on 22 June 1977. The last service was held in Peranga on 19 January 1997, after which the church building was relocated to Goombungee to be used as the hall for the Goombungee Uniting Church. The Goombungee church and hall were sold into private ownership in 2012 for $185,000, but the buildings are still extent (as at 2020). Once the prosperous hub of a rich dairy-producing area, Peranga went into sharp decline after the closure of the Oakey-Cooyar railway line in the mid-1960s. The hotel burnt down in 1967, followed by the school's closure in 1973.
Geography
Peranga is a small town on the Darling Downs, north-west of Toowoomba and north-east of Dalby.
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Geography
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Nearby places in Queensland
- Goombungee14.6 mi away · pop. 786
- Bowenville16.6 mi away
- Yalangur20.6 mi away · pop. 55
- Wengenville22 mi away
- Lilyvale22.4 mi away · pop. 58
- Meringandan23.7 mi away · pop. 530
- Cawdor26.1 mi away · pop. 420
- Cabarlah26.6 mi away · pop. 720
- Gowrie Junction26.8 mi away
- Hampton27.2 mi away · pop. 442
- Alice Creek27.3 mi away
- Jimbour32.3 mi away · pop. 40
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
ABS — Australian Bureau of Statistics
- ASGS 2021
- SAL32297
- Population (Wikidata)
- 85
- Wikidata
- Q7166934
ASGS 2021 ID via Wikidata P10112
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • ABS — Australian Bureau of Statistics — ASGS 2021 ID via Wikidata P10112