The Warrego Highway passes from east to west across the northern part of the suburb.

[6] The suburb is so named because it is immediately north (across the Bremer River) from the centre of Ipswich.

The suburb contains a large number of character and heritage listed houses, such as workers cottages that were home to the many railway workers.Ipswich North State School opened on 5 July 1867 with girls and boys taught in separate rooms.

[8] A United Methodist Free Church opened in Canning Street on Sunday 22 March 1868.

[12][13] On 1 March 1902, auctioneer E. Bostock offered 77 blocks in the "New Workshops Estate", of which 48 sold on the day.

[16] At that time the Tivoli railway line passed through the estate from north to south; the land corridor still exists but is now used a pedestrian path.

[17] In 1923 12 allotments were advertised for sale by Jackson & Meyers on Saturday, 7 July 1923.

This area was called the "Stirling Estate" and was resubdivisions of subdivisions 1 and 2 of Allotment 5 of Section 45 in the parish of Chuwar.