Murgon, Queensland

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Murgon
state = qld


caption =
lga = South Burnett Regional Council
postcode = 4605
est =
pop = 2,143
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
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stategov = Nanango
fedgov = Wide Bay
dist1 = 223
location1= Brisbane
dist2 = 199
location2= Toowoomba
dist3 = 67
location3= Kingaroy

Murgon is a town in Queensland, Australia. It is situated on the Bunya Highway 270 kilometres north-west of the state capital, Brisbane.

Murgon is in the region of Queensland known as the South Burnett, the southern part of the Burnett River catchment. Attractions of Murgon include wine-making, fishing on the nearby Bjelke-Petersen Dam and gem-fossicking.

Murgon is also close to a famous fossil site. The Murgon Fossil Site is the only fossil site with a diverse vertebrate fauna dating to around 55 million years ago, about ten million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Industries include peanuts, dairy farming, beef and cattle production and wine.

The Indigenous Australian settlement of Cherbourg is just south of Murgon.

In 1969 the former Logan Road (Brisbane) tramway electrical substation, was dismantled and rebuilt in Murgon. This unusual link to Brisbane's tram system is located at the southern end of the town's railway station.

ee also

* List of fossil sites "(with link directory)"