Dimbulah Station

The large railway water tank also supplied the small town that grew up around the railway station. In the early 1900s Dimbulah became the centre for postal services and freight to the wolfram mines at Wolfram Camp. It became a centre of activity again in 1914 during construction of the Chillagoe Company's branch railway to the important new coalfield at Mount Mulligan. From this period the town served as a base for railway gangers. It remained the centre of the local rail network until Mount Mulligan mine and the railway were closed in 1958.

Dimbulah became firmly established as the centre of tobacco growing in Queensland with the revival of the industry in the late 1940s. Experiments in tobacco growing had begun in the 1930s, attracting a small number of migrants. Their numbers increased under the post-World War II immigration schemes, new arrivals coming from many European countries.

Because of the more suitable soils of the district, the tobacco industry became well established, particularly from the early 1960s after the Tinaroo Falls Dam irrigation scheme was initiated. Cattle raising and a revival of local mining have also been important to the town. Since the 1990s, as tobacco production has been scaled back, farmers have turned to alternative crops including fruit and vegetables.