Sandy Creek | |||||||||||||
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 Paddocks along Sandy Creek Road, 2015 | |||||||||||||
  Sandy Creek | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates:26°51′06″S152°38′34″E / 26.8516°S 152.6427°E /-26.8516; 152.6427 (Sandy Creek (centre of locality)) | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 106.8 km2 (41.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 593 (2021 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 5.552/km2 (14.381/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4515 | ||||||||||||
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Sandy Creek is a rurallocality in theSomerset Region,Queensland, Australia.[3] In the2021 census, Sandy Creek had a population of 593 people.[2]
Sandy Creek is located northeast ofKilcoy inSouth East Queensland.[4]
Many parts of Sandy Creek are elevated along the southernConondale Range and some of the range is protected withinBellthorpe National Park.[4]
The locality has the following mountains:
Winya State School opened in 1918 and closed in 1960.[8] The school was on a 5-acre (2.0 ha) site on the north-east corner of theD'Aguilar Highway and Sandy Creek Road (26°55′45″S152°36′26″E / 26.9293°S 152.6073°E /-26.9293; 152.6073 (Winya State School (former))) now within the locality of Sandy Creek.[9][10][4]
Hubners Bridge, also known as Hubner Bridge, is aroad bridge on the Sandy Creek Road over Sandy Creek (26°51′13″S152°37′36″E / 26.8537°S 152.626642°E /-26.8537; 152.626642 (Hubners Bridge)). The bridge was washed away on 9 January 2011 (2011-01-09) during the catastrophic2010–2011 floods.[11] Aflying-fox was built across Sandy Creek to provide supplies to residents stranded due to bridge damage.[12] It has been rebuilt since then and was re-opened on 6 April 2012 (2012-04-06).[13]
In the2011 census, Sandy Creek had a population of 555 people.[14]
In the2016 census, Sandy Creek had a population of 567 people.[15]
In the2021 census, Sandy Creek had a population of 593 people.[2]
There are no schools in Sandy Creek. The nearest government primary schools areMount Kilcoy State School in neighbouringMount Kilcoy to the west andKilcoy State School inKilcoy to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school isKilcoy State High School in Kilcoy.[4]
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