Stony Creek

History

Stony Creek Provisional School opened circa 1877. On 1 January 1909, it became Stony Creek State School. Due to low student numbers, it closed in 1914. The Durundur Provisional School opened on 5 July 1897. In 1909 it became Durundur State School. It was renamed Kalangara State School in 1920. The school closed on 25 August 1963. The school was on Stony Creek Road (). There was a hall adjacent to the school ().

Geography

The locality is north of Brisbane. The locality is bounded to the south by the Stanley River and to the south-west by Mary Smokes Creek. Stony Creek is a watercourse that rises in Bellthorpe to the north-west and flows roughly south through the locality of Stone Creek where it becomes a tributary of the Stanley River at on the boundary with Neurum to the south. The D'Aguilar Highway enters the locality from the east (Woodford) and exits to the west (Royston). Most of the residential land use is along the D'Aguilar Highway and Stony Creek Road. There are small areas of forestry and cropping, but the predominant land use in the locality is grazing on native vegetation.

Most-observed species

• Lewin's Honeyeater

  Meliphaga lewinii (Swainson, 1837) · Aves
  2,591
• Eastern Whipbird

  Psophodes olivaceus (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  2,084
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  2,005
• Laughing Kookaburra

  Dacelo novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783) · Aves
  1,852
• Eastern Yellow Robin

  Eopsaltria australis (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  1,848
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  1,561
• Pied Currawong

  Strepera graculina (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  1,488
• Gray Fantail

  Rhipidura albiscapa Gould, 1840 · Aves
  1,435

Most recent

• M 4.9 — 2025-08-15
  12 km ESE of Cherbourg, Australia