Maria Creeks is a rural
locality
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in the
Cassowary Coast Region
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,
Queensland
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, Australia.
In the , Maria Creeks had a population of 143 people.
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Geography
The locality is bounded to the north-west by Big Maria Creek, by the north by Kaygaroo Creek, to the north-east by South Maria Creek, and to the south-east by the El Arish - Mission Beach Road.Coral Sea
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at neighbouring Midgeree Bar.El Arish
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) and then proceeds south-east across the locality before becoming the south-eastern boundary of the locality before exiting to the south-east ( Djiru).sugarcane
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. To the east of the locality, the predominant land use is grazing
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on native vegetation. The land around Mount Edna is more mountainous and is undeveloped. There are also some pockets of rural residential
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housing.
History
Land in this area formed part of the soldier settlement at Maria Creek established after World War I
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.
Demographics
In the , Maria Creeks had a population of 121 people.
Education
There are no government schools in Maria Creeks. The nearest government primary school is El Arish State School in neighbouring El Arish
ʻArish or el-ʻArīsh ( ' ) is the capital and largest city of the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt, as well as the largest city on the Sinai Peninsula, lying on the Mediterranean coast northeast of Cairo and west of the Egypt–Gaza border ...
to the north-west. The nearest government secondary school is Tully State High School in Tully to the south-west.
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Localities in Queensland