Curra

Curra is a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia.

Curra is a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. At the 2016 census, Curra had a population of 1,920.

Curra (Aboriginal name 'Kurui' means grey forest possum).The local Aboriginal tribe of the Gympie region and the Mary River Valley are the Kabi Tribe of the Kabi Kabi First Nation language group.

Parts of Curra are beside the Mary River (Kabi name 'Monaboola' meaning Wide Bay River, named in 1848 in honour of the wife of Governor Fitzroy who had died in 1847), and the railway to the north.

The first landholder owner was Walter Hay whose cattle station homestead in 1859 was named "Currie" and later changed to Curra.

During the gold rush era starting in 1867, Curra was a stopover depot at Palmer's Stockholm Hotel at the Nine Mile for travellers between Maryborough and Gympie using Cobb & Co coaches.

In 1887, 23,500 acres (9,500 ha) of land were resumed from the Curra pastoral run. The land was offered for selection for the establishment of small farms on 17 April 1887.Curra School was opened in 1893, established to cater for the increase in population and closed in 1961.There was a mine in the Curra Estate Road area and there is a working limestone quarry.

Curra Post Office opened by 1916 (a receiving office had been open from 1892) and closed in 1977.At the 2006 census, Curra had a population of 1,372.