Thallon

Thallon is a town and a locality in the Shire of Balonne, Queensland, Australia.

Thallon is a town and a locality in the Shire of Balonne, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Thallon had a population of 257 people.There is a second town within the locality, Nindigully.

Gamilaraay (Gamilaroi, Kamilaroi, Comilroy) is a language from South-West Queensland and North-West New South Wales. The Gamilaraay language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Balonne Shire Council, including the towns of Dirranbandi, Thallon, Talwood and Bungunya as well as the border towns of Mungindi and Boomi extending to Moree, Tamworth and Coonabarabran in NSW.Explorer Thomas Mitchell was the first European in the Thallon district and his initials can still be found on a bloodwood tree near the Moonie River.In 1911, the area was set aside for closer settlement and 780 acres (3.2 km2) were gazetted as a town reserve. The town's name comes from its railway station, which in turn was named on 17 January 1911 by the Queensland Railways Department after James Forsyth Thallon (1847-1911) who was the Queensland Commissioner for Railways from 1900-1911.With the coming of the railway, the town developed and shops and a hotel were established.Thallon State School opened on 24 July 1911.Myrtlemount Provisional School, Warrie Provisional School and Hollymount Provisional School (all named after local pastoral stations) opened on 29 September 1919 as a group of part-time schools (sharing a teacher between them). All three schools closed in 1922 due to low student numbers.At the 2011 census, Thallon and the surrounding area had a population of 382.