Guyra is also known as 'the top of the range' situated at the divide of the Great Dividing Range at a height of 1320. It is interesting to note that rain falling east of the town railway line finds it way to the Pacific Ocean, and rain falling west of the railway line ends up in the Murray-Darling basin.

Guyra was developed at part of the extension of the railway in 1880, although pastoralists had been in the area since 1830.