Sandy Creek is a rural

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in the

Somerset Region The Somerset Region is a local government area located in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland, Australia, northwest of the City of Brisbane. The region is centred on the town of Esk, which also serves as the council seat. Somer ...

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 , Sandy Creek had a population of 593 people.

Geography

Sandy Creek is located northeast of

Kilcoy Kilcoy is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kilcoy had a population of 1,996 people. Geography The township is on the D'Aguilar Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisban ...

South East Queensland South East Queensland (SEQ) is a Bioregion, bio-geographical, Megalopolis, metropolitan and Statistics, statistical Regions of Queensland, region of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of ...

. Many parts of Sandy Creek are elevated along the southern

Conondale Range The Conondale Range is a mountain range in Queensland, located between Maleny, Kenilworth, Kilcoy and Jimna. The range is the most westerly part of the Sunshine Coast hinterland and part of the Great Dividing Range. The highest point on the r ...

and some of the range is protected within Bellthorpe National Park. The locality has the following mountains: * Mount Ann () in the south-west of the locality, rising to * Mount Marysmokes () in the east of the locality, rising to

History

Winya State School opened in 1918 and closed in 1960. The school was on a site on the north-east corner of the

D'Aguilar Highway The D'Aguilar Highway is a two-lane highway linking the Bruce Highway near Caboolture with the Bunya Highway in Kingaroy in the state of Queensland, Australia. Major towns along the route include Woodford, Kilcoy, Blackbutt, Yarraman, ...

and Sandy Creek Road () now within the locality of Sandy Creek. Hubners Bridge Sandy Creek Queensland

Hubners Bridge, also known as Hubner Bridge, is a

road bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

on the Sandy Creek Road over Sandy Creek (). The bridge was washed away on during the catastrophic 2010–2011 floods. A flying-fox was built across Sandy Creek to provide supplies to residents stranded due to bridge damage. It has been rebuilt since then and was re-opened on .

Demographics

In the , Sandy Creek had a population of 555 people. In the , Sandy Creek had a population of 567 people. In the , Sandy Creek had a population of 593 people.

Education

There are no schools in Sandy Creek. The nearest government primary schools are Mount Kilcoy State School in neighbouring Mount Kilcoy to the west and Kilcoy State School in

to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Kilcoy State High School in Kilcoy.

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{{Somerset Region Suburbs of Somerset Region Localities in Queensland