Cattle Creek is a rural

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in the

North Burnett Region The North Burnett Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia in the northern catchment of the Burnett River. Established in 2008, it was preceded by several previous local government areas with histories extending back to the ear ...

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, Australia. In the , Cattle Creek had a population of 13 people.

Geography

The

Burnett Highway The Burnett Highway is an inland rural highway located in Queensland, Australia. The highway runs from its junction with the Bruce Highway at Gracemere, Queensland, Gracemere, just south of Rockhampton, Queensland, Rockhampton, to the D'Aguilar ...

forms the southern boundary of the locality, entering from the south-west ( Malmoe /

O'Bil Bil O'Bil Bil is a rural Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , O'Bil Bil had a population of 28 people. Geography The Burnett River forms the western boundary of the locality, en ...

) and exiting to the south-east (O'Bil Bil / Mundowran). The watercourse Cattle Creek rises in the north of the locality and flows south, crossing into Mundowran to the south-east where it becomes a tributary of O'Bil Bil Creek. The land use is almost entirely

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

O'Bill Bill Creek State School opened in January 1916 as an open air school (a tent-like structure) on a site. In 1925, it was renamed Cattle Creek Valley State School. It closed on 12 March 1971. It was on the north-eastern side of Cattle Creek School Road (approx ).

Demographics

In the , Cattle Creek had a population of 28 people. In the , Cattle Creek had a population of 13 people.

Education

There are no schools in Cattle Creek. The nearest government primary schools are Mundubbera State College in

Mundubbera Mundubbera ( ) is a rural town and a locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Mundubbera had a population of 1,120 people. Mundubbera is the self-proclaimed "Citrus Capital of Queensland", although ...

to the south, Binjour Plateau State School in

Binjour Binjour is a rural locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Binjour had a population of 86 people. Geography Binjour is in the Wide Bay-Burnett region on the Burnett Highway by road north of the state capital, B ...

to the south-east, and Eidsvold State School in Eidsvold to the north-west. The nearest government secondary schools are Mundubbera State College (to Year 10) and Eidsvold State School to Year 12.

References

North Burnett Region Localities in Queensland {{WideBayBurnett-geo-stub