Tingoora is a town in the South Burnett

South Burnett

The South Burnett is a peanut growing and wine-producing region on the Great Dividing Range, north of the Darling Downs, in Queensland.-Towns:...

 region of Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia. The town is in the South Burnett Region LGA and on the Bunya Highway

Bunya Highway

The Bunya Highway is a 173 kilometre state highway of Queensland, Australia. It is a relatively short road, running approximately 170 kilometres in a south-westerly direction from Goomeri to Dalby. The highway connects the Warrego and Burnett Highways....

, 249 kilometres (154.7 mi) north west of the state capital, Brisbane

Brisbane

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. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

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, Tingoora had a population of 175.

The town is named for the local Indigenous Australian word for wattle tree

Acacia

Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not...

. The Tingoora Hotel, established in 1900, was reportedly the first public building in the town.