Geography
The locality is just north of the Cunningham Highway about west of Warwick.History
The locality was named after the creek, which was in turn named after John Thane, a pioneer pastoralist of the Ellangowan Run, who drowned in the Condamine River in 1844. Thanes Creek Presbyterian Church opened on Sunday 20 October 1901. In the Thanes Creek had a population of 30 people.Gold mining and fossicking
Thanes Creek is a former gold mining area, and the site of a government approved gold fossicking area.References
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