Kanigan, Queensland
Geography
Kanyan Road forms the northern boundary of the locality.
Deacons Creek rises in the southern part of the locality and flows through to the north-east, where it exits.
Mount Kanigan is in the north-west of the locality.
Mount Kanigan Nature Refuge is a .2 square kilometres (0.077 sq mi) private nature reserve on Repeater Station Road.
The Bruce Highway runs along the eastern boundary.
The 128 km Gympie (Mt Kanigan) Radar Loop in the south west of the locality is a doppler radar station that is part of the National Radar Loop of the Bureau of Meteorology.
History
Kanyan railway station is in the adjacent locality of Theebine. The name of this station was changed to Kanigan in July 1945 and changed back to Kanyan in December the same year. In 1881 when the Maryborough to Gympie railway opened the station was described as "in the middle of a dense weedy pine scrub, known ... as Ramsay's, where there is nothing but a few tents and perhaps a truck or so of palings to indicate that the spot is a railway station named Kanyan. [It] .. derives its title from the aboriginal name ' Kanyn' given to the creek and mountain close by.
Another version of the word Kanyan is that it is derived from the Aboriginal word, Kabi language, kanigan indicating daughter.
Kannagan Provisional School opened on 6 July 1896. By 1898 the spelling of the name had changed to be Kanighan Provisional School. On 1 January 1909, it became Kanighan State School. About 1946, the spelling changed to Kanigan State School. It closed in 1959. It was on the western corner of the junction of Kanyan Road and the Bruce Highway (approx 25°54′15″S 152°35′53″E / 25.9042°S 152.5981°E), now within the present-day boundaries of Gootchie.
Demographics
In the 2016 census Kanigan had a population of 114 people.
In the 2021 census, Kanigan had a population of 143 people.