Public Trails Computed from official land records

Somerset Official spatial — evidence class · Somerset · QLD

Lemon Tree Creek

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

Gazetted name -26.53333, 152.31667 Yabba State Forest · State Forest watercourse

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

Public land — inside Yabba 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 Lemon Tree 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 Yabba 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 sedimentary and felsic volcanic rock, mapped as Marumba beds (Pm) , early permian? in age. The survey describes it as: Mudstone, sandstone, conglomerate, rhyolite Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps 4 ecosystems over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 25% — Eucalyptus crebra, E. tereticornis, Corymbia intermedia woodland on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.14 · Of concern Official spatial — evidence class
  • 25% — Eucalyptus siderophloia, E. propinqua +/- E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus, Corymbia intermedia, E. acmenoides open forest on metamorphics +/- interbedded volcanics 12.11.3 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class
  • 25% — Eucalyptus tereticornis, Corymbia intermedia, E. crebra +/- Lophostemon suaveolens woodland on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.12 · Of concern Official spatial — evidence class
  • 25% — Mixed open forest including combinations of Eucalyptus propinqua, E. siderophloia, Corymbia intermedia, E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus open forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.15 · 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 "Lemon Tree Creek" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Forest estate, recorded as "State Forest". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 986AP23884 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Somerset, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate Yabba State Forest , designated State Forest. Declared under the Forestry Act 1959; 15,322 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 19 Sep 2024; first gazetted 17 Oct 1997; 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 Lemon Tree 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

Internal Roads - Yabba SF passes 345 m from the recorded point. The contour layer does not cover this ground, so the height between the two is unmeasured — and an unmeasured gap is never read as no gap.

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 5 computed

5 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.

Lemon Tree Creek from #4079 Road

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class lemon-tree-creek--from-4079-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
4008.7 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

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

Lemon Tree Creek from Internal Roads - Yabba SF

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class lemon-tree-creek--from-internal-roads-yabba-sf
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
344.5 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.

Lemon Tree Creek from minimally formed natural track off Cowah Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class lemon-tree-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-cowah-road
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1932.2 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

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Kabi Kabi First Nation Traditional Owners Native Title Claim Group — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

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

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Lemon Tree Creek, Yabba State Forest
Lot on plan
986AP23884
Coordinates
-26.53333, 152.31667 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this place was read from