Bahrs Scrub

Bahrs Scrub is an urban locality in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia.

Bahrs Scrub is an urban locality in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Bahrs Scrub had a population of 1,919 people.

As the name suggests, the area was originally scrub land. The origin of the name is less clear. It has been attributed to early German settlers, Carl Wilhelm Bahr and his son, Wilhelm Bahr. The earliest references to the location call it Jimmybark Scrub and the nearby hill Bark Hill (now Bahrs Hill), so the current names may be a corruption of these.Bahr's Scrub State School opened circa July 1919. It closed in 1929 due to low student numbers.Windaroo Valley State High School opened on 1 January 1994.