History
Jondaryan Division was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879. With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, it became a shire on 31 March 1903. Until 1960, the Shire's offices were located at Snell and Russell Streets, Toowoomba. Many of the council's original staff and councillors were associated with the Jondaryan Estates pastoral empire.
Originally covering a much larger area, on 24 April 1913, the Millmerran and Pittsworth areas to its southwest seceded and separately incorporated. Earlier that year, it had incorporated the area which is now part of urban Toowoomba when the Shire of Gowrie split on 25 January 1913 between Jondaryan and the new Town of Newtown, which four years later merged with the City of Toowoomba. On 19 March 1949, Jondaryan received part of the former Shire of Drayton when it was abolished.
In 1960, the Shire's headquarters moved to the town of Oakey.
On 15 March 2008, under the Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the Shire of Jondaryan merged with the City of Toowoomba and the Shires of Cambooya, Clifton, Crows Nest, Millmerran, Pittsworth and Shire of Rosalie to form the Toowoomba Region.
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