The Borough of Allora came into being on 21 July 1869 under the Municipal Institutions Act 1864.

[2] The surrounding region was incorporated on 11 November 1879 as the Clifton Division under the Divisional Boards Act 1879.

On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas.

The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994.

On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the Shire of Allora was abolished.