Sandy Creek, Queensland


Sandy Creek is a rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Sandy Creek had a population of 567 people.

Geography

Sandy Creek is located northeast of Kilcoy in South East Queensland.
Many parts of Sandy Creek are elevated along the southern Conondale Range and some of the range is protected within Bellthorpe National Park including Mount Mary Smokes.

History

The locality had a population of 555 at the.

Features

Hubners Bridge, also known as Hubner Bridge, was a road bridge on the Sandy Creek Road over Sandy Creek in the locality of 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.