Kobble Creek is situated along Mount SamsonRoad tothe south of Dayboro, approximately northwest of the Brisbane central business district. The south-eastern boundary of the locality is the Mount Samson Range. The range includes Mount Kobble at a height of. The name Kobble is derived from the Waka language, Garumngar dialect, word kabul meaning carpet snake. The western part of the locality is mountainous and within the D'Aguilar National Park which extends further west into a number of other localities. The land use in the eastern part of the locality is a mixture of rural residential, grazing on native vegation and some cropping.
History
The locality is named after the creek with that forms part of the catchment area of Lake Samsonvale, one of the three main water-suppliers to the metropolitan region. Kobble Creek was, in years gone by, predominantly a dairy farming community with some banana and pineapple farming on surrounding hillsides. As a farming community, Kobble Creek supported a butter factory, primary school, and railway station, the latter two located near the site of the current SamsonvaleRural Fire Brigade. Following the forced resumption of much of the best farming land in the district to build the North Pine Dam and flood Lake Samsonvale, today the district is predominantly a rural-dormitory zone with very limited farming undertaken. Kobble Creek Provisional School opened circa 1881. On 1 January 1909 it became Kobble Creek State School. It closed in 1954. In 1919 the Dayboro railway line reached Kobble Creek with the Kobble railway station opening on 3 November 1919; the line reached its terminus at Dayboro railway station on 25 September 1920. Kobble Creek was officially named and bounded as a locality on June 2009, but was formerly part of the Samsonvale district. At the Kobble Creek had a population of 499 people. In the, Kobble Creek had a population of 632 people.
Demographics
In the the population of Kobble Creek was 499, 48.7% female and 51.3% male. The median age of the Kobble Creek population was 39 years of age, two years above the Australian average. 77.8% of people living in Kobble Creek were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 6.8%, New Zealand 3.4%, South Africa 0.8%, Canada 0.6%, Cyprus 0.6%. 92.6% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.6% German, and 0.6% American Languages.
