Kabra, Queensland

Kabra is a rural town and locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Kabra had a population of 421 people.
Boongary is a neighbourhood in the south-east of the locality ().
Geography.
The town is in the north-east of the locality on the Capricorn Highway. Middle Creek passes through the town and Gracemere Creek passes through the rural part of the locality.
The Central Western railway line passes through the locality from Rockhampton to Winton with the following stations within the locality:
The Dawson Valley railway line commenced at Kabra railway station and went to Theodore with the following stations in the locality:
The Dawson Valley railway line is now closed and its stations abandoned.
The locality of Kabra has the following mountains:
The land use is mixed. Housing is not limited to the town area with pockets of rural residential development mainly in the east of the locality. The agricultural use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation but also on modified pastures. There is also some cropping and a number of quarries.
History.
In the 1860s, Cargoogie Mountain (or Police Mountain) adjacent to Kabra was an outpost for the Native Police. It served as a depot for troopers and horses, and messages would be communicated from this outpost to the main barracks near Rockhampton via heliograph or smoke signals. Skeletal remains, some in manacles, were occasionally unearthed when ploughing the fields around the outpost after it had ceased operations.
A post office was opened on 7 September 1887; it closed on 31 October 1977.
The first stage of the railway line to Mount Morgan (subsequently extended to Theodore) opened on 15 June 1898, branching at Kabra railway station. The Boongary railway station was named by the Queensland Railways Department and the name "Boongarry" is an Aboriginal word meaning "tree kangaroo" and that name also refers to the neighbourhood around the railway station.
Land was reserved for a school in Kabra in July 1902 and the Kabra Provisional School opened on 29 October 1902. On 1 January 1909 it became Kabra State School. Due to falling enrolment numbers, the school closed on 23 February 1941; the last teacher was Harry Adolph Barke.
On 29 September 1917, an honour board was unveiled at the Kabra railway station, listing men from the district who served in World War I. It was high and wide and made of polished silky oak. When the railway station closed, the honour board was relocated to the Kabra Hotel where it is now displayed in the dining room.
In the 2011 census, Kabra had a population of 472 people.
In the the locality of Kabra had a population of 421 people.
Education.
There are no schools in Kabra. The nearest primary schools are Waraburra State School in neighbouring Gracemere to the east, Gracemere State School also in Gracemere, Bouldercombe State School in neighbouring Bouldercombe to the south, and Stanwell State School in neighbouring Stanwell to the west. The nearest government secondary schools are Rockhampton State High School in Wandal in Rockhampton to the north-east and Mount Morgan State High School in Mount Morgan to the south-west.
Attractions.
Kabra is a major waypoint on the National Bicentennial Trail.