Turee Creek Station, often referred to as Turee Creek and also known as Turee Station, is a pastoral lease that operates as a

cattle station In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm ( station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a '' grazier''. The largest cattle stati ...

. It is located about south east of Paraburdoo and south west of Newman in the

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region of

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. Turee Creek occupies an area of and shares boundaries with

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, Mininer, Prairie Downs,

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and

Juna Downs Juna Downs Station, often referred to as Juna, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station. It is located about east of Tom Price and north west of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The station's western boundar ...

Stations as well as the vacant

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. The station is split into two blocks separated by crown land. The

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is situated on the southern block. This block consists of the broad alluvial plains of Turee Creek flanked by hardpan plains. The northern block is made up of a narrow river valley flanked by jagged hills and undulating plains. The station was owned in 1932 by Piesse and Maguire, who were trading in bullocks to the sale yards in Meekatharra. In 1979 the property was stocked with 1,522 head of cattle and was estimated to be able to support 3,050 head in a good season. In 2003 the property was owned and managed by Bruce and Suzanne Maguire and was running a herd of 3,700 cattle. Tourists are able to visit the property as part of the Outback Mail Tour where Polar Aviation, the mail contractors, are able to take tourists along when they complete their deliveries once a week.

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swept through the area in 2006, with over of rangeland being burnt out at Turee Creek and Prairie Downs Stations.

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{{Stations of the Pilbara Western Australia Pastoral leases in Western Australia Stations (Australian agriculture) Pilbara

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