Public Trails Computed from official land records

Somerset Official spatial — evidence class · Somerset · QLD

Googa Googa Creek

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

Gazetted name -26.95000, 152.13333 Benarkin State Forest · State Forest watercourse

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

Public land — inside Benarkin State Forest. 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.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Googa Googa Creek. The layer maps far more creeks than it has ever named, so that is a gap in the record rather than dry ground.

The point falls inside Benarkin State Forest, designated State Forest. Official spatial — evidence class

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

The rock at the surface is granite, mapped as Taromeo Igneous Complex/gd1 (Rgm/gd1) , late permian - early triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Light grey medium-grained equigranular to sparsely porphyritic biotite hornblende granodiorite, minor tonalite Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • 100% — Notophyll vine forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.16 · 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 "Googa Googa Creek" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Forest estate, recorded as "State Forest". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 283FTY1651 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Somerset, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Benarkin State Forest , designated State Forest. Declared under the Forestry Act 1959; 16,100 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 3 Aug 2001; no encumbrance recorded. Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named. —
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 Googa Googa Creek and the starts of the 4 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

Internal Roads passes 168 m from the recorded point. There is 20 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 4 published of 7 computed

7 ways in were computed and 4 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.

Googa Googa Creek from Cherry Boundary Track

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class googa-googa-creek--from-cherry-boundary-track
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1682.5 m
Caveats
none

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

Googa Googa Creek from Esplanade

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class googa-googa-creek--from-esplanade
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1753.8 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.

Googa Googa Creek from Internal Roads

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class googa-googa-creek--from-internal-roads
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1544.8 m
Caveats
none

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

Googa Googa Creek from Mines Track

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class googa-googa-creek--from-mines-track
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
4339.6 m
Caveats
none

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 State Forest · statutory inference

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

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Location
Googa Googa Creek, Benarkin State Forest
Lot on plan
283FTY1651
Coordinates
-26.95000, 152.13333 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this place was read from