Pheasant Creek, Queensland
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| Coordinates: 23°48′21″S 150°06′05″E / 23.8058°S 150.1013°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 305.3 km2 (117.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 48 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.1572/km2 (0.407/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4702 | ||||||||||||
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Pheasant Creek is a rural locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Pheasant Creek had a population of 48 people.[1]
The Leichhardt Highway runs along part of the eastern boundary.[3]
The locality takes its name from the watercourse Pheasant Creek which rises in the south-west of the locality and flows through the locality, exiting to the north-east (Westwood).[4] The creek in turn was named after the hundreds of scrub turkeys (called "pheasants" by the local people) that inhabited the creek banks. Early settlers ate the birds.[5]
Pheasant Creek has the following mountains:
- Mount Wheal (23°52′12″S 150°04′06″E / 23.8701°S 150.0682°E), rising to 609 metres (1,998 ft) above sea level[6][7]
- Mount Spencer (23°55′21″S 150°05′10″E / 23.9225°S 150.0862°E), 598 metres (1,962 ft)[6][8]
The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop growing.[9]
History
Pheasant Creek Provisional School opened circa 1919, but closed circa 1921. It was a tent school, which was relocated to Benarabin. After much local lobbying,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] in 1925, a new school building was erected and opened as Pheasant Creek State School,[20][21] but it had closed by 1928 with the building proposed to be relocated to Biloela.[22][23][24][25] Lobbying for a school resumed in 1936.[26][27][28] In April 1940, tenders were called for a new school building (possibly funded by the local community),[29][30] which opened on 29 October 1940. It closed permanently in 1967.[31] It was on the western side of Grantleigh Pheasant Creek Road (23°49′08″S 150°04′09″E / 23.81876°S 150.06903°E).[32][33][34]
