Taroom
- Local Government Area
- Banana
- Population
- 885
- Area
- 1,381.55 km²
- Coordinates
- -25.6795, 149.8680
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Taroom
Taroom is a town on the Dawson River and the Leichhardt Highway in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, about 380 kilometres north-west of Brisbane. The name comes from an Aboriginal word for the native lime tree of the district. Ludwig Leichhardt passed through the area in 1844, and a Coolibah tree in the main street bearing a carved message from his expedition is heritage-listed. The settlement grew around Stoney Crossing on the Dawson River from 1856, and the town remains a service centre for sheep, cattle and grain country.
Nearby localities
- Grosmont 32 km
- Glebe (Qld) 33 km
- Spring Creek (Banana - Qld) 35 km
- Kinnoul 35 km
- Broadmere 39 km
- Bungaban 41 km