Lockyer Valley · Tenthill Creek
Tenthill Creek from Chadwick Road
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Chadwick Road, with caveats.
The chain below runs entirely across land the public has an established right to be on. It is a legal line, not a path: nothing here has been surveyed on the ground.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.55820, 152.28299
That is Chadwick Road, where the walk below begins — 22.9 km of it. Every link here goes to that coordinate and never to the feature itself, because a driving route to a waterfall is a driving route into the country above one.
- Google Maps one link for a desktop browser, Android or iPhone
- Apple Maps the default on iPhone and Mac
- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-27.55820, 152.28299
The record does not say what reaches the start The roads layer leaves trafficability unstated on most of its rows, and it is unstated here. That is an absence of evidence, not an ordinary road: treat the last stretch as unresearched.
The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. What the record says about a vehicle is above, and it describes this point rather than the drive to it. Whether the road is sealed, gated, or open today, and where a car may lawfully be left, are none of them things these records say — so treat the last few kilometres as unresearched, and the mapping service's route to them as its own work, not ours.
The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 2724624 | nothing mapped | 893.6 m | 91.3° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 3853770 | nothing mapped | 2110.1 m | 107.1° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 3859128 | nothing mapped | 430.2 m | 187.9° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 2047143 | nothing mapped | 424.2 m | 10.6° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 2044559 | nothing mapped | 1187.1 m | 115.7° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 2048169 | nothing mapped | 20.1 m | 115.7° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Road reserve | 2044597 | nothing mapped | 1320.8 m | 116.6° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 8 | Road reserve | 2046915 | nothing mapped | 641.1 m | 188.4° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 9 | Road reserve | 2047485 | nothing mapped | 632.4 m | 10.2° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 10 | Road reserve | 2044673 | nothing mapped | 1718.8 m | 127.5° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 2048321 | nothing mapped | 42.1 m | 39.3° NE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 2046877 | nothing mapped | 957.5 m | 309.6° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 2039011 | nothing mapped | 488.3 m | 23.7° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 2035819 | nothing mapped | 486.0 m | 23.7° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 2039201 | nothing mapped | 430.6 m | 296.4° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 2035553 | nothing mapped | 428.0 m | 295.7° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Road reserve | 2775620 | nothing mapped | 1761.8 m | 304.0° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 18 | Road reserve | 2780066 | nothing mapped | 359.0 m | 7.2° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 19 | Road reserve | 2779914 | nothing mapped | 356.0 m | 190.4° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 20 | Road reserve | 2775354 | nothing mapped | 968.1 m | 279.0° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 21 | Road reserve | 2776570 | nothing mapped | 20.0 m | 279.0° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 22 | Road reserve | 2763650 | nothing mapped | 910.2 m | 279.0° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 23 | Road reserve | 2764334 | nothing mapped | 56.2 m | 282.6° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 24 | Road reserve | 2764182 | nothing mapped | 224.3 m | 2.8° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 25 | Watercourse bed | 2762092 | nothing mapped | 2496.1 m | 279.0° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 2653792 | nothing mapped | 537.8 m | 220.4° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 27 | Watercourse bed | 2657554 | nothing mapped | 12.9 m | 227.0° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 28 | Watercourse bed | 2633348 | nothing mapped | 930.9 m | 298.4° WNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 29 | Watercourse bed | 2630802 | nothing mapped | 631.5 m | 260.4° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 30 | Watercourse bed | 2630764 | nothing mapped | 522.2 m | 191.6° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 31 | Watercourse bed | 2630232 | nothing mapped | 232.4 m | 113.8° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 32 | Road reserve | 2631106 | nothing mapped | 95.8 m | 131.3° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 33 | Road reserve | 2631144 | nothing mapped | 97.0 m | 120.4° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 34 | Road reserve | 717131 | nothing mapped | 21.7 m | 121.2° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 35 | Road reserve | 2630270 | nothing mapped | 140.7 m | 106.6° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 36 | Watercourse bed | 2630726 | nothing mapped | 264.9 m | 163.4° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 22850.4 m | Chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class | |||
Every leg above is computed from cadastral geometry. Nobody has walked it, and no part of it is a path on the ground: it is the line along which the public record establishes a right to be. Where a leg names a way, that is what a managing authority has mapped down the same ground — it says nothing more about your right to be there, which the parcel already settled.
Caveats — what has to be said before walking this
- Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.
- Watercourse crossing. The chain crosses a watercourse bed. The bed is State land by statutory inference, there is no structure, and the crossing is off in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2044673 and 2046877 is 33.69 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2764182 and 2653792 is 2393.39 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2762092 and 2657554 is 511.98 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2653792 and 2633348 is 7.91 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2657554 and 2630802 is 857.23 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2633348 and 2630764 is 576.51 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2630802 and 2630232 is 496.71 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2630764 and 2631106 is 185.28 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.
Following it on the ground No published way to follow
at least 9½ hours out and back
at least 4¾ hours there at least 4¾ hours back
90 m up and 95 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 95 m.
This walk is 9½ hours out and back at a minimum, past the 8 hours this site plans a day walk against. It is published in full and it is not a day walk: plan it as an overnight trip, or turn around at a time you choose before you set off rather than at the fall.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.
How much climbing Read off the published contour layer
- Total climb
- 90.0 m
- Total descent
- 95.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 28.3% over 53.0 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 116.9 m | 100.0 m |
| 287.7 m | 100.0 m |
| 1487.6 m | 95.0 m |
| 5103.9 m | 90.0 m |
| 6425.7 m | 90.0 m |
| 6543.1 m | 95.0 m |
| 6636.3 m | 100.0 m |
| 6792.2 m | 105.0 m |
| 7288.4 m | 105.0 m |
| 7419.6 m | 100.0 m |
| 7516.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 7647.1 m | 90.0 m |
| 7672.1 m | 90.0 m |
| 8140.8 m | 90.0 m |
| 8655.1 m | 90.0 m |
| 8668.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 8671.1 m | 90.0 m |
| 8680.2 m | 90.0 m |
| 8680.5 m | 90.0 m |
| 10141.8 m | 90.0 m |
| 10168.0 m | 90.0 m |
| 10177.9 m | 90.0 m |
| 10204.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 10215.6 m | 90.0 m |
| 12577.2 m | 90.0 m |
| 12631.6 m | 90.0 m |
| 12981.9 m | 90.0 m |
| 12988.3 m | 90.0 m |
| 13031.9 m | 90.0 m |
| 13059.0 m | 90.0 m |
| 13063.6 m | 90.0 m |
| 16072.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 16849.0 m | 95.0 m |
| 16859.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 17127.3 m | 90.0 m |
| 17170.2 m | 95.0 m |
| 17683.5 m | 100.0 m |
| 17736.8 m | 100.0 m |
| 17945.0 m | 100.0 m |
| 17973.9 m | 100.0 m |
| 18013.9 m | 100.0 m |
| 18020.0 m | 100.0 m |
| 18122.6 m | 100.0 m |
| 18374.5 m | 100.0 m |
| 18398.0 m | 100.0 m |
| 18401.9 m | 100.0 m |
| 18777.5 m | 100.0 m |
| 19317.1 m | 100.0 m |
| 19326.3 m | 95.0 m |
| 19336.0 m | 90.0 m |
| 19482.2 m | 90.0 m |
| 19537.1 m | 95.0 m |
| 19582.1 m | 95.0 m |
| 19598.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 19677.1 m | 95.0 m |
| 19786.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 19791.3 m | 90.0 m |
| 19847.3 m | 95.0 m |
| 19871.3 m | 95.0 m |
| 19911.9 m | 90.0 m |
| 19913.5 m | 90.0 m |
| 19921.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 19934.8 m | 100.0 m |
| 20553.1 m | 105.0 m |
| 20637.5 m | 105.0 m |
| 20641.5 m | 105.0 m |
| 20650.2 m | 105.0 m |
| 20688.4 m | 100.0 m |
| 20698.3 m | 95.0 m |
| 20703.2 m | 90.0 m |
| 20963.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 20973.6 m | 95.0 m |
| 21012.6 m | 100.0 m |
| 21439.4 m | 100.0 m |
| 21453.7 m | 95.0 m |
| 21518.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 21568.2 m | 100.0 m |
| 21687.0 m | 105.0 m |
| 21963.9 m | 105.0 m |
| 21977.0 m | 100.0 m |
| 21982.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 21990.5 m | 90.0 m |
| 22171.0 m | 90.0 m |
| 22211.0 m | 95.0 m |
| 22247.2 m | 100.0 m |
| 22316.1 m | 105.0 m |
| 22344.8 m | 105.0 m |
| 22371.9 m | 105.0 m |
| 22501.1 m | 105.0 m |
| 22580.6 m | 100.0 m |
| 22588.7 m | 100.0 m |
| 22749.7 m | 100.0 m |
| 22763.2 m | 95.0 m |
The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 36 legs from Chadwick Road, 22850.4 m in total.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.
What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link
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The destination sits on the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 2630726, recorded tenure "Watercourse". Being at the destination and reaching it are separate questions, and this page answers only the second.
Cadastre and protected-area estate layers Attribution licensed
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Leg 1: 2724624 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
893.6 m at 91.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2724624 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 3853770 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
2110.1 m at 107.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3853770 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 3859128 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
430.2 m at 187.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3859128 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 2047143 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
424.2 m at 10.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2047143 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 2044559 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1187.1 m at 115.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2044559 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 2048169 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.1 m at 115.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2048169 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 2044597 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1320.8 m at 116.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2044597 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 8: 2046915 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
641.1 m at 188.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2046915 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 9: 2047485 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
632.4 m at 10.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2047485 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 10: 2044673 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1718.8 m at 127.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2044673 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 11: 2048321 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
42.1 m at 39.3°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2048321 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 2046877 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
957.5 m at 309.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2046877 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 2039011 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
488.3 m at 23.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2039011 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 2035819 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
486.0 m at 23.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2035819 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 2039201 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
430.6 m at 296.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2039201 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 2035553 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
428.0 m at 295.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2035553 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 2775620 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1761.8 m at 304.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2775620 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 18: 2780066 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
359.0 m at 7.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2780066 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 19: 2779914 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
356.0 m at 190.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2779914 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 20: 2775354 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
968.1 m at 279.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2775354 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 21: 2776570 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.0 m at 279.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2776570 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 22: 2763650 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
910.2 m at 279.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2763650 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 23: 2764334 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
56.2 m at 282.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2764334 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 24: 2764182 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
224.3 m at 2.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2764182 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 25: 2762092 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
2496.1 m at 279.0°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2762092 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 26: 2653792 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
537.8 m at 220.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2653792 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 27: 2657554 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
12.9 m at 227.0°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2657554 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 28: 2633348 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
930.9 m at 298.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2633348 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 29: 2630802 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
631.5 m at 260.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2630802 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 30: 2630764 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
522.2 m at 191.6°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2630764 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 31: 2630232 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
232.4 m at 113.8°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2630232 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 32: 2631106 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
95.8 m at 131.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2631106 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 33: 2631144 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
97.0 m at 120.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2631144 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 34: 717131 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
21.7 m at 121.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 717131 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 35: 2630270 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
140.7 m at 106.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2630270 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 36: 2630726 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
264.9 m at 163.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 2630726 Grade statutory_inference
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Statutory inference — evidence class
Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest class in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at statutory inference.
Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Tenthill Creek
- Lot on plan
- 2630726
- Coordinates
- -27.55911, 152.26596 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse
What this approach was read from
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16