Branch Creek, Queensland

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Branch Creek
Queensland
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Branch Creek
Coordinates 25°23′39″S151°26′04″E / 25.3941°S 151.4344°E / -25.3941; 151.4344 (Branch Creek (centre of locality)) Coordinates: 25°23′39″S151°26′04″E / 25.3941°S 151.4344°E / -25.3941; 151.4344 (Branch Creek (centre of locality))
Population32 (2016 census) [1]
 • Density0.1028/km2 (0.266/sq mi)
Postcode(s) 4625
Area311.4 km2 (120.2 sq mi)
Time zone AEST (UTC+10:00)
Location
LGA(s) North Burnett Region
State electorate(s) Callide
Federal division(s) Flynn
Suburbs around Branch Creek:
Eidsvold East Mungy Yenda
Cattle Creek Branch Creek Yenda
Gurgeena Binjour Reids Creek

Branch Creek is a locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2016 census, Branch Creek had a population of 32 people. [1]

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Geography

Branch Creek (from which the locality presumably takes its name) rises in the north-west of the locality and flows to the south of the locality where it becomes a tributary to Reid Creek (which was also known as Binjour Creek), which then continues south to Binjour. [3] [4]

History

The bushranger "the Wild Scotchman" was said to have hidden out in the vicinity of Branch Creek and the adjacent Mungy Station in the mid-1860s. [5] The bushranger was said to have visited the Black Horse Hotel which was on the old Gayndah-Dalgangal road where it passed through Branch Creek. [6]

Fontainebleau State School opened at Branch Creek on 16 September 1915. It closed in 1964. [7] [8] [9] It was on a 3-acre (1.2 ha) site on the north-eastern side of Binjour Branch Creek Road ( 25°25′06″S151°24′59″E / 25.4182°S 151.4163°E / -25.4182; 151.4163 (Fontainebleau State School (former)) ). [10] [3]

Education

There are no schools in Branch Creek. The nearest government primary schools are Binjour Plateau State School in neighbouring Binjour to the south and Eidsvold State School in Eidsvold to the west. The nearest government secondary schools are Eidsvold State School (to Year 12) in Eidsvold to the west, Mundubbera State School (to Year 10) in Mundubbera to the south, and Burnett State College (to Year 12) in Gayndah to the south-east. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Branch Creek (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Branch Creek – locality in North Burnett Region (entry 48109)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Outline Map of the Wide Bay & Burnett Districts Illustrating the Pastoral Holdings 1894". Outline Map of the Wide Bay and Burnett Districts illustrating the Pastoral Holdings 1894. Queensland Government. 1894. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  5. ↑ ""WILD SCOTCHMAN"". Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay And Burnett Advertiser . No. 19, 702. Queensland, Australia. 28 December 1933. p. 7. Retrieved 23 October 2022– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ Queensland State Archives (26 September 1878). "Tracing shewing proposed resumptions from the Ideraway, Yenda, Penang, Nour Nour, Land of Promise, Branch Ck. No. 1, Prazier, Upper Chin Chin, Lower Chin Chin". Queensland Government . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  7. ↑ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN   978-1-921171-26-0
  8. ↑ "Agency ID 6249, Fontainebleau State School". Queensland State Archives . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "Advertising". Truth . No. 2761. Queensland, Australia. 22 February 1953. p. 41. Retrieved 22 October 2022– via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Queensland Two Mile series sheet 2m116" (Map). Queensland Government. 1938. Retrieved 22 October 2022.

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