Dalrymple, Queensland

Dalrymple
Queensland
Dalrymple is located in Queensland
Dalrymple
Dalrymple
Coordinates19°48′34″S 146°05′41″E / 19.8094°S 146.0947°E / -19.8094; 146.0947 (Dalymple)
Established1864
Postcode(s)4820
LGA(s)Charters Towers Region

Dalrymple is a former township on the western bank of the Burdekin River, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] Established in 1864 as a police camp it was destroyed by flooding in 1870 and was abandoned in the following years. The site of the former township now falls within Dalrymple National Park where headstones and fencing remaining from the sites settlement can be found.

  1. ^ "Dalrymple – unbounded locality in Charters Towers Region (entry 9237)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 1 January 2020.