Cressbrook Creek, Queensland
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Cressbrook Creek, Queensland
OR:
Cressbrook Creek, Queensland on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Cressbrook Creek is a rural
locality Locality may refer to: * Locality, a historical named location or place in Canada * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localitie ...
in the
Toowoomba Region The Toowoomba Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area (LGA) on the border of Darling Downs and South East Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, the LGA was preceded by several other local go ...
,
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 , Cressbrook Creek had a population of 10 people.


Geography

The watercourse Cressbrook Creek enters the locality from the west ( Crows Nest) and flows east into Lake Cressbrook created by the
Cressbrook Dam Cressbrook Dam is one of the three water storages used to supply Toowoomba and the surrounding region in Queensland, Australia. The dam is north-east of Toowoomba in the locality of Biarra in the Somerset Region. It was constructed in 1983 for ...
. Only the westernmost part of the lake is within the locality of Cressbrook Creek with most of lake and the dam wall being within the neighbouring locality of Biarra to the east and south-east. Cressbrook Creek has the following mountains (from north to south): * Mount Sevastopol on the eastern boundary of the locality () * Mount Dongineeriaman (Sandy Mountain) in the south of the locality () The land use is predominantly
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.


Demographics

In the , Cressbrook Creek had a population of 20 people. In the , Cressbrook Creek had a population of 10 people.


Education

There are no schools in Cressbrook Creek. The nearest government primary school is
Crow's Nest State School Crows Nest is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. The town is located in the Darling Downs on the New England Highway, from the state capital, Brisbane and from the nearby city of Toowoomba. In the , the l ...
in neighbouring Crows Nest to the south-west, which also provides secondary schooling to Year 10. The nearest government secondary schools to Year 12 are
Toogoolawah State High School Toogoolawah ( ) is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toogoolawah had a population of 1,200 people. Geography Toogoolawah is in South East Queensland. Toogoolawah is a centre for gliding and parach ...
in Toogoolawah to the north-east and Highfields State Secondary College in Highfields to the south-west. There are also non-government schools in and around Highfields.


See also

*
List of tramways in Queensland List of tramways in Queensland provides three separate lists, each in alphabetical order of the key identifier. They are: * Non sugar cane tramways, ordered by Tramway Name as contained in Wikipedia articles. * Sugar cane tramways, ordered by Sug ...


References

{{Toowoomba Region Toowoomba Region Localities in Queensland