Public Trails Computed from official land records

Somerset Official spatial — evidence class · Somerset · QLD

Bull Creek

Lawful route — caveats lawful, with something that needs saying first

Gazetted name -27.29222, 152.20639 watercourse

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference

Public land. 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.

Bull Creek sits on Bull Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 12.4 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.

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

The rock at the surface is metamorphosed volcanic and sedimentary rock, mapped as Sugarloaf Metamorphics (DCo) , late devonian - early carboniferous in age. The survey describes it as: Slate, spotted hornfelsed slate, phyllite, quartzite, schist, amphibolite Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps 3 ecosystems over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 90% — Eucalyptus saligna or E. grandis, E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus tall open forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.2 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class
  • 5% — Simple notophyll vine forest often with abundant Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (gully vine forest) on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.1 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class
  • 5% — Eucalyptus grandis tall open forest on alluvial plains 12.3.2 · Of 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 "Bull Creek" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Watercourse bed, recorded as "Watercourse". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 3587431 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Somerset, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot. —
Watercourse Bull Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 12.4 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 Bull Creek and the starts of the 3 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 stops short of this place Official spatial — evidence class

Bullant Firebreak passes 200 m from the recorded point. There is 25 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 5.0 m contour interval. The contours give the height between them and never which way round it is, so this is a separation and not a descent to plan.

The way passes further off than anything the record can call a way to this place — or, where being above or below a feature is no answer at all, it is on the wrong level of it. Two measurements are used rather than one precisely so neither distance nor height can settle this on its own. Nothing here says how to close the remaining gap: no authority has surveyed a way across it, and a bearing off the end of a track is exactly the guess this site refuses to make.

Approaches — one page each 3 published of 4 computed

4 ways in were computed and 3 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.

Bull Creek from Brennan Road

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class bull-creek--from-brennan-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
2024.5 m
Caveats
Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Bull Creek from Bullant Firebreak

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class bull-creek--from-bullant-firebreak
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
199.8 m
Caveats
Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Bull Creek from minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class bull-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1925.2 m
Caveats
Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

No registered cultural heritage party boundary in the published dataset covers this point. That is the state of the dataset, not a statement that no party has an interest here.

A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.

All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.

Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.

Rules here — derived from tenure no estate designation resolved

Conduct rules follow from tenure and the legislation that governs it. Nothing specific is inferred here, which means you should read the signs, not that no rules apply.

Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Bull Creek
Lot on plan
3587431
Coordinates
-27.29222, 152.20639 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this place was read from