Upper Cooyar Creek is a rural

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in the

Toowoomba Region The Toowoomba Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area (LGA) on the border of Darling Downs and South East Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, the LGA was preceded by several other local go ...

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, Australia. In the , Upper Cooyar Creek had a population of 16 people.

Geography

The

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughl ...

forms most of the western boundary of the locality, while the Cooyar Range forms most of the northern boundary. Cooyar Creek rises in the north-west of the locality and flows south-east, exiting to the east of the locality ( Cooyar); it is a tributary of the

Brisbane River The Brisbane River (Turrbal language, Turrbal: ) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia. It flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the ...

within the

North East Coast drainage basin The north-east coast drainage division or north-east coast basin is the area of Queensland between the Great Dividing Range and the Pacific Ocean. It lies between Torres Strait and an arbitrary line drawn along the Queensland - New South Wales bo ...

. The Cooyar Rangemore Road enters the locality from the east (Cooyar), travels in a westernly direction through the locality, and then exits to south-west ( Rangemore).

Bunya Mountains National Park Bunya Mountains is a national park in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. Geography The park includes much of the mountain range called the Bunya Mountains. The park encompasses the most westerly area of subtropical rainforest in ...

is in the north-west of the locality (where Cooyar Creek rises) and extends into the neighbouring locality of

Bunya Mountains The Bunya Mountains are a distinctive set of peaks forming an isolated section of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland. The mountain range forms the northern edge of the Darling Downs in the locality also called Bunya Mountains, Quee ...

. Apart from this protected area, the land use is predominantly

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation with some crop growing and forestry.

History

Cooyar Creek Upper Provisional School opened on 20 August 1924. It became Cooyar Creek State School on 1 August 1926 after being re-erected on a new site. It closed on 1 December 1940. It was at 1054 Cooyar Rangemore Road ().

Demographics

In the , Upper Cooyar Creek had a population of 17 people. In the , Upper Cooyar Creek had a population of 16 people.

Education

There are no schools in Upper Cooyar Creek. The nearest government primary schools are Cooyar State School in neighbouring Cooyar to the east and

Quinalow State School Quinalow is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Quinalow had a population of 205 people. Geography The town is located on Darling Downs in the north of the locality and on the bank ...

Quinalow Quinalow is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Quinalow had a population of 205 people. Geography The town is located on Darling Downs in the north of the locality and on the bank ...

to the south. The nearest government secondary schools are Quinalow State School (to Year 10) and Yarraman State School (to Year 9) in Yarraman to the north-east. There are no nearby schools offering education to Year 12; the alternatives are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding school.

References

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