Canning Creek, Queensland

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Canning Creek
Queensland
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Canning Creek
Coordinates 28°16′05″S151°08′41″E / 28.26806°S 151.14472°E / -28.26806; 151.14472 (Canning Creek (centre of locality))
Population21 (2021 census) [1]
 • Density0.0729/km2 (0.189/sq mi)
Established1877
Postcode(s) 4357
Area288.1 km2 (111.2 sq mi)
Location
LGA(s)
State electorate(s) Southern Downs
Federal division(s) Maranoa
Suburbs around Canning Creek:
Bringalily Bringalily Stonehenge
Bybera Canning Creek Mosquito Creek
Inglewood Inglewood Mosquito Creek

Canning Creek is a rural locality split between the Goondiwindi Region and the Toowoomba Region in Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, Canning Creek had a population of 21 people. [1]

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Geography

The Millmerran–Inglewood Road (State Route 82) passes through the locality from north to south. [4]

Much of the locality is occupied by a large portion of the Bringalily State Forest.

History

The locality takes its name from the creek named in 1827 by explorer Allan Cunningham after Sir George Canning, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. [2]

British pastoralists arrived in the 1840s with Captain Robert Gerald Moffatt, a retired British Army officer of the 17th Regiment, forming the Canning Creek pastoral lease. [5]

In 1848, 3 Aboriginal women and one child were murdered in the area by a posse of seven white men. [6] [7]

Canning Creek was opened for selection on 17 April 1877; 112 square miles (290 km2) were available. [8]

The Canning Creek Provisional School opened on 15 November 1885 and became Canning Creek State School on 1 January 1909. The school closed on a number of occasions due to low student numbers. On 18 April 1922 it became a half-time school sharing the teacher with Glenside State School, with both schools closing on 20 June 1922. [9]

Glenside Provisional School opened in 1914. On 1 December 1914 it became Glenside State School. On 18 April 1922 it was closed as a full-time school and reopened as a half time school in conjunction with Canning Creek State School. Due to the distance between the 2 schools they closed on 20 June 1922. [10]

Demographics

In the 2016 census, Canning Creek had a population of 5 people. [11]

In the 2021 census, Canning Creek had a population of 21 people. [1]

Education

There are no schools in the locality. The nearest primary and secondary school is Inglewood State School (Prep to Year 10) in neighbouring Inglewood to the south. There are no nearby secondary schools for education to Year 12; the nearest are Goondiwindi State High School in Goondiwindi and Warwick State High School in Warwick. Distance education and boarding school would be other options. [12]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Canning Creek (Goondiwindi Regional) – locality (entry 47804)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 4 July 2017.
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  5. "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald . Vol. XXIII, no. 3404. New South Wales, Australia. 17 April 1848. p. 3. Retrieved 15 September 2023 via National Library of Australia.
  6. Rolleston, Christopher. "Letters to Colonial Secretary relating to Moreton Bay and Queensland 1848" (PDF). Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  7. "REWARD". New South Wales Government Gazette . No. 2. New South Wales, Australia. 2 January 1849. p. 4. Retrieved 15 September 2023 via National Library of Australia.
  8. "Proclamations under the New Land Acts". The Brisbane Courier . Queensland, Australia. 2 March 1877. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2020 via Trove.
  9. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN   978-1-921171-26-0
  10. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN   978-1-921171-26-0
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  12. "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland . Retrieved 21 October 2020.