A Local Board of Main Roads for the North Midland District was established at Gladstone in 1874.
The District Council of Crystal Brook was proclaimed on 11 November 1882, and comprised only the township of Crystal Brook and the suburban sections of the hundred, after a proposed broader council covering the entire hundred met with resistance from rural residents.
[3] In the early 1970s, it constructed a new caravan park in the town with the assistance of the state government.
[8] It published a local history, Changing with Crystal Brook, 1873-1973 by J. Poore, in 1973.
[10] They had previously proposed for the District Council of Georgetown to join the merger, but this had not been successful.