Farrars Creek is an rural
locality
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in the
Shire of Barcoo
The Shire of Barcoo is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Central West Queensland, Australia.
It covers an area of , and has existed as a local government entity since 1887. It is named for the Barcoo River which reaches ...
,
Queensland
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, Australia.
In the , Farrars Creek had "no people or a very low population".
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Geography
The watercourse Farrars Creek flows through the locality from the north-east (Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric Megalith, megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, to ...
) to the south-west, where it becomes a tributary of the Diamantina River
The Diamantina River is a major river in Central West Queensland and the far north of South Australia.
The river was named by William Landsborough in 1866 for Lady Diamantina Bowen (née Roma), wife of Sir George Bowen, the first Governor of Qu ...
, part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin.Windorah
Windorah is a town and a locality in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia. It is one of only three towns in the Shire of Barcoo in Central West Queensland. In the , the locality of Windorah had a population of 104 people.
Geography
Loca ...
) to west (Bedourie
Bedourie is a town and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. It is on the Queensland borders, border with the Northern Territory. In the , the locality of Bedourie had a population of 1 ...
). The Birdsville Developmental Road passes through the locality from the south-east (Windorah) to the south ( Tanbar).grazing
In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...
on native vegetation.
History
Karuwali (also known as Garuwali, Dieri) is a language of far western Queensland. The Karuwali language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Diamantina Shire Council
The Shire of Diamantina is a local government area in Central West Queensland, bordering South Australia and the Northern Territory. Its administrative centre is in the town of Bedourie.
Like most places in Queensland with the "Diamantina" nam ...
, including the localities of Betoota and Haddon Corner
Haddon Corner is a heritage-listed location (geography), site in Tanbar, Queensland, Tanbar, Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia. It is in outback Channel Country at South-West Queensland, on the border corner with South Australia. It was a ...
.
The locality takes its name from the creek, which in turn takes its name after a stockman called Farrar who was employed on John Costello's pastoral property Kyabra.
Demographics
In the , Farrars Creek had "no people or a very low population".
Education
There are no schools in Farrars Creek nor nearby. The options are distance education
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and boarding school.
References
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Shire of Barcoo
Localities in Queensland