Place:Julia Creek, Queensland, Australia

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NameJulia Creek
TypeTown
Coordinates20.667°S 141.667°E
Located inQueensland, Australia
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Julia Creek is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Mckinlay, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Julia Creek had a population of 511 people.[1]

The town of Oorindi is within the west of the locality beside the Oorindi railway station; as at 2019, there is nothing in the town. The town of Gilliart is within the west of the locality beside the Gilliart railway station; as at 2019, there is nothing in the town.[2]

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History

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The name Julia Creek was named after the niece of Donald McIntyre (younger brother of Duncan McIntyre), the first white settler in the area. McIntyre took up a property called Dalgonally about north of the present site of the town in 1864, only a few years after the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition passed through the area.

The township began life as a temporary railway terminus in 1907 when the Great Northern railway line was extended from Richmond to service the copper mines at Cloncurry.

The name Oorindi is the Aboriginal name for the Williams River (which is about west of Oorindi) and means stones.

Julia Creek Post Office opened by September 1910 (a receiving office had been open from 1907).

Julia Creek State School was a one-room school established in 1911 with nine students, and was expanded in 1932 and again in 1934. A separate high school was constructed in 1963.[3]

In 1952 the town was serviced with electricity.

St Joseph's School opened in 1955 and closed in 1995.

A sixteen-bed hospital was established in 1972.

Julia Creek Public Library was opened in 1994.

In the . the locality of Julia Creek had a population of 511 people.

The Dirt n Dust Festival sporting and music festival was held in the town annually from 1995 to 2019 and was considered one of Queensland's largest events of its type. After cancellations in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced in July 2021 that due to a lack of volunteers, and there being no committee to run the event, the Dirt n Dust Festival would no longer be held. But in December 2021, an organising committee was formed and the 2022 festival is expected to commence on Friday 22 April.

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