Sunshine Coast Official spatial — evidence class · Sunshine Coast · QLD

Kuchs Crossing

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

Gazetted name -26.64889, 152.81306 ford

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 ford — a place a way crosses a watercourse at the level of the bed. The register names the crossing; it records nothing about depth or flow, and a ford is exactly the feature whose passability changes with the weather rather than with the map.

Kuchs Crossing sits on Obi Obi Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 24.4 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 alluvium, mapped as Qha/1-QLD (Qha/1) , holocene in age. The survey describes it as: Gravel, sand, silt, clay; lowest alluvial terrace Official spatial — evidence class

The remnant vegetation mapping records no ecosystem over this point. That covers remnant vegetation only, so it is what the register says about ground that has been cleared, or is water, sand or rock — not a statement that nothing grows here.

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	"Kuchs Crossing" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Watercourse bed, recorded as "Watercourse".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	538704	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Sunshine Coast, 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	Obi Obi Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 24.4 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Recorded as a ford in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Kuchs Crossing and the starts of the 11 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

The nearest published way passes 389 m from the recorded point. There is 5 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 11 published of 27 computed

27 ways in were computed and 11 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.