title: Borallon, Queensland
text: # Borallon, Queensland
  
  Borallon is a rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Borallon had a population of 81 people.
  
  It is known for the Borallon Correctional Centre (a prison facility) located there.
  
  ## History
  
  The locality takes its name from a railway station, which was in turned named by Queensland Railway Commissioner Francis Curnow after his birthplace near St Ives in Cornwall, England.
  
  Borallon Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a receiving office had been open from 1922) and closed in 1974.
  
  In the 2016 census, Borallon had a population of 81 people.
  
  