Sheep Station Creek is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Sheep Station Creek had a population of 108 people.

Geography

Northern parts rise in elevation along the south-western extent of the

Conondale Range The Conondale Range is a mountain range in Queensland, located between Maleny, Kenilworth, Kilcoy and Jimna. The range is the most westerly part of the Sunshine Coast hinterland and part of the Great Dividing Range. The highest point on the ra ...

. The majority of Sheep Station Creek has been cleared of native vegetation and is now used for agriculture purposes.

History

In December 1878, the

Queensland Government The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended fr ...

established a temporary reserve of for a school. On 8 July 1882, a public meeting was held and resulted in an application being made to establish a provisional school with an expected enrolment of 14 students, noting that the nearest school was distant in Neurum. In 1884, the school opened under the name Kilcoy Provisional School. In 1894, it was renamed Sheep Station Creek Provisional School. On 1 January 1909, it became Sheep Station Creek State School. On 24 May 1919, the school's old decaying building was replaced by a school building relocated from

Kandanga Kandanga is a town and a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kandanga had a population of 665 people. Geography The town is located on the Mary Valley Road ( State Route 51) north of the state capita ...

, which had outgrown its building. Sheep Station Creek State School closed in 1941. It was on Kilcoy Murgon Road (). In 1942 during

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, the school was part of a site used for training by the Adelaide Rifles, a military unit of 760 men. The Sheep Station Creek 2/10th Battalion Memorial to the immediate west of the school () commemorates this unit from which 237 men were killed and 319 wounded in the

Battle of Milne Bay The Battle of Milne Bay (25 August – 7 September 1942), also known as Operation RE or the Battle of Rabi (ラビの戦い) by the Japanese, was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Japanese marines, known as ''Kaigun Tokubet ...

and the

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. The memorial was unveiled on Saturday 3 November 1951. After the army abandoned the school site, the local community constructed a dance hall as an extension of the school building, using the school building as a supper room. In November 2018, the hall was damaged in a storm. In January 2019, the

Somerset Regional Council The Somerset Region is a local government area located in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland, Australia, about northwest of Brisbane and centred on the town of Esk. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shire of Esk and th ...

decided that the building was not a valuable asset and not worth the cost of repairing and had the building quickly demolished. This upset the local community who believed they were not consulted about the future of the hall. The local community managed to obtain the materials from the demolished building and proposed to reconstruct the hall incorporating the recycled materials. As at February 2020, the council has invited the Sheep Station Creek Progress Association to submit a formal proposal. At the , the locality recorded a very low population so it was included in the population statistics for a wider area which totalled 431. In the , Sheep Station Creek had a population of 108 people.

Education

There are no schools in Sheep Station Creek. The nearest government primary schools are Kilcoy State School in neighbouring

Kilcoy Kilcoy is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kilcoy had a population of 1,898 people. Geography The township is on the D'Aguilar Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane, ...

to the south and Mount Kilcoy State School in neighbouring Mount Kilcoy to the east. The nearest government secondary school is Kilcoy State High School in Kilcoy.

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