The name
Gindie means
"much brigalow". Gindie Provisional School (also known as Gindie Siding Provisional School) opened 12 November 1897 with 25 students under head teacher Miss Mary E. Hamilton. It became Gindie State School on 1 January 1909. The school closed in 1949 but later reopened. In 1965, the school moved to a new site using a demountable building until a permanent building was completed in 1970. The Gindie State Farm was established In 1898 to experiment with growing new kinds of crops in the district such as sorghum, maize and pumpkins. The farm closed in 1932. Fernlees State School opened on 20 September 1951 and closed in 1953. It was on a site off to the west the Gregory Highway north of the town (approx ). Fernlees Methodist Church was established in 1959 at 2780
Gregory Highway (). Following the amalgamation of the Methodist Church into the
Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became the Fernlees Uniting Church. It closed in 2007. It is now a private residence. On 17 April 2020, the
Queensland Government re-drew the boundaries of
localities within the Central Highlands Region by replacing the locality of
The Gemfields with three new localities of
Rubyvale,
Sapphire Central and
Anakie Siding (around the towns of Rubyvale,
Sapphire, and
Anakie respectively). This included adjusting the boundaries of other existing localities in the Region to accommodate these changes; Gindie gaining the south-eastern corner of The Gemfields and gaining the eastern edge of
Lochington, but losing a small area of its northern part and a small area from its north-east part to Anakie Siding, increasing the area of the locality from . As a consequence of these changes,
Lake Maraboon is now entirely within the north-west of Gindie and the boundary between
Lochington and
Minerva/Gindie more closely follows the course of the
Nogoa River. == Demographics ==