On Sunday 30 March 1949 Archbishop James Duhig laid the foundation stone for St Patrick's Catholic Primary School. In 1977 the Methodist Church amalgamated into the Uniting Church in Australia and the church in Pomona became the Pomona Uniting Church. In 1925, the Methodist Church building at Kareewa was relocated to behind the Pomona Methodist Church to be used as the church hall. Pomona Methodist Church opened on 26 March 1921 by the Reverend Henry Youngman. Pomona is in the Wide Bay federal electoral division. The seat was renamed Noosa following the 1991 electoral district's re-shuffle. The state electoral district to which Pomona was part of from 1912 until 1992 was named Cooroora. Colonial buildings are also a feature of the town and can be viewed along a signed history walk. Many buildings were re-constructed with brick or in the ' Art Deco' architectural style of the era. The main streets of the town were devastated by fires in 19. The original headquarters for the Shire, which were constructed in 1911, are now used by the Cooroora Historical Society and Noosa Shire Museum. However, on 1 December 1980 the Council chambers moved to Tewantin. The town became the administrative centre of the Noosa Shire Council when it was established in 1910. The early colonial dairy industry at Pomona was replaced by a patchwork of small cropping farms. Many of the town streets were named after the functions of buildings located along them including Ambulance Street, Church Street, School Street, Rectory Street, Hospital Street, Pottery Street and Factory Street. The town and railway station were originally called Pinbarren in 1899, then renamed Curara, and renamed Pomona in 1900, after the Roman goddess of fruit and orchards. In 1976 the school was relocated to Station Street. From 1945 the school included a secondary department (Grades 8-10). On 1 January 1909 it became Pomona State School. Pinbarren Provisional School opened on 1 August 1897 and was originally located on Reserve Street near the business centre of the town, in what is now called Stan Topper Park. The railway to Pomona commenced operation in 1891, opening the land to farming. Įarly settlers collected timber from the area. Pomona was first settled by Europeans in the late 1880s, but had been home to the Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi indigenous peoples for thousands of years before that. Mill Street, Pomona, during the February 2013 Eastern Australia floods. Pomona is within the Noosa Biosphere recognised by the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) in 2007 as a World Biosphere Reserve. Hikers, horse riders and mountain bike riders use the excellent trail network at its base. It is a popular site in the cooler months for visiting tourists climbing to the summit to appreciate excellent views looking east to the Sunshine Coast and west into the Mary Valley. Mount Cooroora has significant landscape, social and economic values to the town, while its vertical columns are an attraction to geologists. The surrounding area is of high importance to Aboriginal people and there are many sites of Indigenous cultural importance across the region. It is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south-west of the town. It is a high intrusive volcanic plug within the Tuchekoi National Park. The forest is now preserved as koala habitat. A significant portion of the locality is within Yurol State Forest, a legacy of days past when the town once was a centre of forestry activities. The township of Pomona is surrounded by rural residential acreage properties and small farms. The North Coast railway line passes through the locality from the south-east to the north-west, with the town served by the Pomona railway station ( 26☂1′58″S 152★1′24″E / 26.3661°S 152.8567☎ / -26.3661 152.8567 ( Pomona railway station)). The locality of Pomona is bounded to the south by the Bruce Highway and along most of its northern boundary by Six Mile Creek. It is located at the base of Mount Cooroora (439 meters) at the northern end of the Sunshine Coast. Pomona is located around 135 kilometres north of Brisbane.

In the 2016 census the locality of Pomona had a population of 2,910 people. Pomona is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia.

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