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Theodore, Queensland
Theodore is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It was established in the 1920s as part of Queensland Premier Ted Theodore's ambitious Dawson River Irrigation Scheme which failed to eventuate. It was originally known as Castle Creek, but that name is now used by another locality in the area.
In the 2021 census, the locality of Theodore had a population of 451 people.
Theodore is situated on the Dawson River just off the Leichhardt Highway 565 kilometres (351 mi) north-west of the state capital, Brisbane. Castle Creek flows through the town and into the Dawson River immediately south of the town centre.
Theodore has a humid subtropical climates (Köppen: Cfa), with hot, wet summers and mild, dry winters with cool nights. Average maxima vary from 33.5 °C (92.3 °F) in December to 21.6 °C (70.9 °F) in July while average minima fluctuate between 20.4 °C (68.7 °F) in January and February and 6.2 °C (43.2 °F) in July. Mean average annual precipitation is moderate: 732.2 mm (28.83 in), but is highly concentrated during the summer. Rainfall is spread across 53.1 precipitation days (above the 1.0 mm (0.039 in) threshold), and the town experiences 86.7 clear days and 44.8 cloudy days per annum. Extreme temperatures have ranged from 42.0 °C (107.6 °F) on 28 January 1990 to −4.4 °C (24.1 °F) on 6 July 1982. Sunshine data was sourced from Brigalow Research Station, which is 30.1 km (18.7 mi) northwest of Theodore.
The Aboriginal inhabitants of the area were the Gangulu people. Gangalu (Gangulu, Kangulu, Kanolu, Kaangooloo, Khangulu) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Gangula country. The Gangula language region includes the towns of Clermont and Springsure extending south towards the Dawson River.
The first European settler in the district was Joseph Thompson who amassed a number of pastoral leases from 1850 to his death in 1857, including Oxtrack Creek, Okangal, Coteeda, Delusion Creek, Macoom, Hope, Thalba and Woolthorpe. He entered a partnership with James Reid who acquired the Boam run and acquired Thompson's runs after his death and then acquired further runs, before beginning to sell out to new settlers.
In 1864 a town called Woolthorpe was surveyed and town lots offered for sale, but few were sold and no town developed at that time.
In 1893, William Woolrych acquired 13,000 acres (53 km2) of land alongside the Dawson River and gradually built it up through further land acquisitions into the very large Woolthorpe Station.
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Theodore, Queensland
Theodore is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It was established in the 1920s as part of Queensland Premier Ted Theodore's ambitious Dawson River Irrigation Scheme which failed to eventuate. It was originally known as Castle Creek, but that name is now used by another locality in the area.
In the 2021 census, the locality of Theodore had a population of 451 people.
Theodore is situated on the Dawson River just off the Leichhardt Highway 565 kilometres (351 mi) north-west of the state capital, Brisbane. Castle Creek flows through the town and into the Dawson River immediately south of the town centre.
Theodore has a humid subtropical climates (Köppen: Cfa), with hot, wet summers and mild, dry winters with cool nights. Average maxima vary from 33.5 °C (92.3 °F) in December to 21.6 °C (70.9 °F) in July while average minima fluctuate between 20.4 °C (68.7 °F) in January and February and 6.2 °C (43.2 °F) in July. Mean average annual precipitation is moderate: 732.2 mm (28.83 in), but is highly concentrated during the summer. Rainfall is spread across 53.1 precipitation days (above the 1.0 mm (0.039 in) threshold), and the town experiences 86.7 clear days and 44.8 cloudy days per annum. Extreme temperatures have ranged from 42.0 °C (107.6 °F) on 28 January 1990 to −4.4 °C (24.1 °F) on 6 July 1982. Sunshine data was sourced from Brigalow Research Station, which is 30.1 km (18.7 mi) northwest of Theodore.
The Aboriginal inhabitants of the area were the Gangulu people. Gangalu (Gangulu, Kangulu, Kanolu, Kaangooloo, Khangulu) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Gangula country. The Gangula language region includes the towns of Clermont and Springsure extending south towards the Dawson River.
The first European settler in the district was Joseph Thompson who amassed a number of pastoral leases from 1850 to his death in 1857, including Oxtrack Creek, Okangal, Coteeda, Delusion Creek, Macoom, Hope, Thalba and Woolthorpe. He entered a partnership with James Reid who acquired the Boam run and acquired Thompson's runs after his death and then acquired further runs, before beginning to sell out to new settlers.
In 1864 a town called Woolthorpe was surveyed and town lots offered for sale, but few were sold and no town developed at that time.
In 1893, William Woolrych acquired 13,000 acres (53 km2) of land alongside the Dawson River and gradually built it up through further land acquisitions into the very large Woolthorpe Station.