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Coalstoun Lakes, Queensland

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Population
  
423 (2011 census)

State electorate(s)
  
Callide

Postal code
  
4621

Lga
  
North Burnett Region

Postcode(s)
  
4621

Coalstoun Lakes
  
Biggenden

Local time
  
Wednesday 9:11 AM

Federal division
  
Division of Flynn

Location
  
20 km (12 mi) south-west of Biggenden 60 km (37 mi) south-west of Childers 235 km (146 mi) north-west of Brisbane

Weather
  
24°C, Wind SE at 11 km/h, 51% Humidity

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Coalstoun Lakes is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2011 census, Coalstoun Lakes had a population of 423 people.

Contents

Map of Coalstoun Lakes QLD 4621, Australia

History

The lakes (from which the district takes its place) were named by local pioneer, Nugent Wade Brown, in 1894. The meaning of the name is not known but it has been speculated that Coalstoun is the corruption of an Aboriginal word Goanalganai.

In fact, the name 'Coalstoun' is a corruption of the word 'Colstoun' which was the ancestral home of the Brown family in Scotland. Colstoun is located south of Edinburgh and remains in the Brown family.

Coalstoun Lakes Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a receiving office had been open from 1910) and closed in 1976.

Coalstoun Lakes State School opened on 25 July 1910.

References

Coalstoun Lakes, Queensland Wikipedia