Drillham

Drillham is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

Drillham is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Drillham had a population of 126 people.

The town was established in 1878 to service the railway and was home to a camp for workers building the bridge over nearby Drillham Creek. Drillham Post Office opened by June 1910 (a receiving office had been open from 1895). The town and the creek were originally known as 'Delerium' due to the typhoid fever that struck this camp.Drillham Provisional School opened on 28 Aug 1899, becoming Drillham State School on 1 January 1909.At the 2011 census Drillham and the surrounding area had a population of 217.In the 2016 census Drillham had a population of 126 people.

Four children from the same family died on 15 January 1893 when they were all accidentally drowned in Drillham Creek.Matilda Roehrig (aged 14), Isabella Roehrig (aged 12), Charles Roehrig (aged 11) and Jane Roehrig (aged 8) were the children of railway lengthsman Charles Roehrig and his wife Matilda.The news of the children's deaths was widely reported in newspapers around Australia. The site where the children's bodies were buried is located alongside the creek beside the Warrego Highway and is marked with a small monument with a commemorative plaque which was unveiled by the Miles and District Historical Society on 23 July 1966.