Bakers Bend is a rural

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in the

Shire of Murweh The Shire of Murweh is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Maranoa, Queensland, Maranoa district, which is part of South West Queensland, Australia. The administrative centre and largest town in the shire is Charleville ...

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, Australia. In the , Bakers Bend had a population of 7 people.

Geography

The

Warrego River The Warrego River is an intermittent river that is part of the Darling catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, which is located in South West Queensland and in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. The Warrego River is the north ...

meanders from north to south through the locality. The Western railway line from Charlevillle to

Cunnamulla Cunnamulla () is a town and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Paroo, Queensland, Australia. It is south of Charleville, Queensland, Charleville, and approximately west of the state capital, Brisbane. In the 2021 Au ...

runs north to south through the locality, east of the river. The

Mitchell Highway Mitchell Highway is an outback state highway located in the central and south western regions of Queensland and the northern and central western regions of New South Wales in Australia. The southern part of Mitchell Highway forms part of t ...

runs from north to south through the locality parallel and immediately east of the railway line. The now abandoned town of Wallal is within the locality ().

Demographics

In the , Bakers Bend had a population of 28 people. In the , Bakers Bend had a population of 7 people.

Heritage listings

Bakers Bend has a number of

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...

sites, including: * off the Diamantina Developmental Road:

Myendetta Homestead Myendetta Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Myendetta Station, Bakers Bend, Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built by Gibbs Brothers of Charleville. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Reg ...

* off the

Landsborough's Blazed Tree (Camp 69) Landsborough's Blazed Tree (Camp 69) is a heritage-listed blazed tree at Mitchell Highway, Bakers Bend, Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia. It was marked by William Landsborough. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 18 June 2 ...

References

{{Shire of Murweh Shire of Murweh Localities in Queensland