Moreton Bay Official spatial — evidence class · Moreton Bay · QLD

Branch Creek

Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it

Gazetted name -26.88067, 152.72970 Bellthorpe National Park · National Park watercourse

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land — inside Bellthorpe National Park. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.

Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A watercourse — the channel a creek or river runs in, named at one coordinate along a length that may run for kilometres. Whether there is water in it is not recorded, and neither is whether its bed may be walked — that is a question about the land the channel crosses, answered on this site by the tenure chain rather than by the name.

Branch Creek sits on Stony Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 0.7 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Bellthorpe National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is mafic volcanic rock, mapped as Bellthorpe Andesite (Ph) , permian - triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Andesite Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

100% — Eucalyptus tereticornis, Casuarina cunninghamiana subsp. cunninghamiana +/- Melaleuca spp. fringing woodland 12.3.7 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class

On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions

What each register holds about this place
Claim	What the record says	Evidence
Name	"Branch Creek" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	832NPW728	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Moreton Bay, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	Bellthorpe National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 8,073 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 19 Sep 2024; first gazetted 10 Nov 2000; no encumbrance recorded.	Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse	Stony Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 0.7 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Recorded as a watercourse in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Branch Creek and the starts of the 6 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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.

Is there a track to it Measured in plan and in section

The way reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

The nearest published way passes 21 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.

Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.

Approaches — one page each 6 published of 13 computed

13 ways in were computed and 6 are published here. The rest either reach the same ground from a few hundred metres away — the same drive and the same walk — or reach no lawful chain at all, which is only worth saying when nothing else does.