Texas

Texas is a rural town and locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

Texas is a rural town and locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. In the 2016 census, Texas had a population of 843 people.

Bigambul (also known as Bigambal, Bigumbil, Pikambul, Pikumbul) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Bigambul people. The Bigambul language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Goondiwindi Regional Council, including the towns of Goondiwindi, Yelarbon and Texas extending north towards Moonie and Millmerran.Texas sits on Bigambul land, the Indigenous people of the region who inhabited the area for thousands of years prior to colonisation in the 1840s.

The origin of the town's name is generally regarded as a reference to a territorial dispute.The land in the area was first settled by the McDougall brothers, who found squatters there on returning from the goldfields. Once their legal right to the land was recognised, they named their property in honour of the rather more famous dispute between the United States and Mexico over territory in Texas, USA.Land in Texas was open for selection on 17 April 1877; 140 square miles (360 km2) were available.Texas was connected by the Texas railway line from Inglewood in November 1930 with the town being served by the Texas railway station. The line was closed in 1994.

Up until about 1986, tobacco farming was an important industry in the area and many Italian families settled the area to run and work the tobacco farms.

At the 2006 census, Texas had a population of 693.The current Texas Library was opened in 2010 with minor refurbishment in 2011.At the 2011 census Texas had a population of 1,159.

The Texas Heritage Centre and Tobacco Museum is at 50 Fleming Street (28.8564°S 151.1727°E? / -28.8564; 151.1727? (Texas Heritage Centre & Tobacco Museum)).