Approval to construct the church was given in November 1931. A tender for the construction of the building was accepted in January 1932, with constructing commencing about June 1932. The church was officially opened on Saturday 16 July 1932. The church was . Kroombit Provisional School opened on 17 May 1933 and closed on 13 April 1936. Tiamby Provisional School opened on 1 July 1933. The school closed on 31 December 1942. It was on the north-eastern corner of 3224 Crowsdale Camboon Road (). Clinker Creek State School opened in July 1938 and closed on 23 February 1942. It was on the south-west corner of Drumburie Road and Frawleys Road (). By the 1930s, a cotton boom had allowed the town to support two hotels, two butchers, two bakers, a picture theatre, a cordial factory, a blacksmith and a bank. The name Kariboe comes from the Kariboe railway station, assigned on 19 September 1940 by the Queensland Railways Department, which in turns derives its name from pastoral run name used in mid-1850s by pastoralist Charles Archer. It is the Aboriginal language name for the local creek. At the , the town of Thangool had a population of 339 while the locality had a population of 545. In the , the locality of Thangool had a population of 741 people. The Red Steer Hotel closed in April 2017, leaving the town without a hotel, so the Thangool Recreation Club obtained a limited liquor licence to provide a place for locals to gather for a drink. Education Thangool State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 2 Aerodrome Road (). In 2015 the school had 115 students enrolled. In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 143 students with 12 teachers (8 full-time equivalent) and 10 non-teaching staff (5 full-time equivalent). Thangool State School has an active Facebook page. There are no secondary schools in Thangool. The nearest secondary school is Biloela State High School in Biloela to the north-west. Economy Dryland farming in the area produces mainly sorghum and wheat but also some sunflower, mung beans and barley. Irrigated crops produced include cotton and lucerne as well as wheat and sorghum. A Thangool business, Queensland Squab Processors, supply 60 per cent of the Australian market for squab while a new business producing herbs for the food service industry was developed recently. There are a number of