| Wrights Creek Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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 Looking west along the cane trameway to the Mulgrave Sugar Mill from Hill Road, Wrights Creek, 2018 | |||||||||||||||
  Wrights Creek | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 17°01′16″S 145°46′26″E / 17.0211°S 145.7738°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 160 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 7.05/km2 (18.3/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 4869 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 22.7 km2 (8.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | AEST (UTC+10:00) | ||||||||||||||
| Location |
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| LGA(s) | Cairns Region | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mulgrave | ||||||||||||||
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Wrights Creek is a rural locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Wrights Creek had a population of 160 people.[1]
The origin of the suburb name is from the Wright brothers who brought cattle to Wrights Creek in the year 1878.[3]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Census2021was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Wrights Creek – locality in Cairns Region (entry 48946)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ^ "W Suburbs" (PDF). Cairns Heritage Page. Cairns Regional Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.