Jimbour East

Jimbour East is a rural locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

Jimbour East is a rural locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census Jimbour East had a population of 199 people. The town of Jimbour in the locality.

The town name was first used by 1841 by Henry Dennis for his Jimbour pastoral run, with the apparent meaning of either "sheep" or "good grass" in an unrecorded Aboriginal language. In 1877, 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of land was resumed from the Jimbour pastoral run to establish smaller farms. The land was offered for selection on 24 April 1877.Jimbour Provisional School opened on 9 September 1873. On 14 November 1916 it became Jimbour State School. During 1922 and 1923 it became a half-time school (meaning a single teacher was shared between two schools) in conjunction with Spring Flat State School initially and then with Springfield Provisional School. It resumed as a full time school in 1923 but then closed on 31 December 1925.It reopened on 29 September 1931 as Jimbour Provisional School. On 2 June 1933 it returned to State School status.Jimbour Post Office opened on 1 September 1882.The Jimbour Memorial Hall is the second such building on that site, the first having blown down in a severe storm in 1949.In the 2006 census Jimbour East had a population of 185 people.In the 2016 census Jimbour East had a population of 199 people.