[1] The Toowoomba–Karara Road (State Route 48) passes through the locality from north-east to south, running immediately to the east of the town.

Tourist Drive 12 (the Sprint Route) follows Leyburn Cunningham Road to the outskirts of Warwick.

[6] Leyburn was named in the 1840s by William Gray, Snr., who came to the area by bullock dray from Pitt Town on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.

[7] The first name for the locality was Canal Creek; the name was changed to Leyburn by Henry and Jane Kirby, Gray's son-in-law and daughter, and derives from the market town of Leyburn in the English county of Yorkshire.

Henry Kirby and another man named Collins applied in 1854 for the licence of the Travellers' Home Inn at Leyburn.

[7] In 1858, James Murray erected his Coffee Room Inn and Boarding House (now the Granall Residence).

[10] In September 1871, Bishop Edward Tufnell officially opened and dedicated an Anglican church to St Augustine of Canterbury.

[18] On Sunday 8 December 1901 Fathers Horan and O'Brien officially opened St Matthew's Catholic Church.

[24] During World War II, an airfield with a 7,000-foot runway was constructed by April 1943 for the use of the United States Army Air Force.