Butchers Creek, Queensland
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Butchers Creek Queensland |
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 Butchers Creek
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| Coordinates | 17°20′23″S 145°41′55″E / 17.3397°S 145.6986°ECoordinates: 17°20′23″S 145°41′55″E / 17.3397°S 145.6986°E | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 4885 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 29.2 km2 (11.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Tablelands Region | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Hill | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Kennedy | ||||||||||||||
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Butchers Creek is a locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia.
Butchers Creek is on the eastern edge of the Atherton Tableland. It is one of the few parts of the tableland that drains eastward, its creeks being tributaries of the Mulgrave River. The area receives high rainfall and the traditional land use has been for dairying and beef fattening.
Butchers Creek is said to take its name from a massacre of the Ngajanji people at a bora ring in the area in the 1880s.
In the early 20th century, a group of Russian emigrants establlished dairy farms in the area, giving it the nickname "Little Siberia".
Butchers Creek Provisional School opened on 8 October 1913 with 11 students studying under teacher John Tait. It become Butchers Creek State School in 1918. The school celebrated its centenary in 2013.
Butchers Creek State School is a co-educational primary (P-6) school operated by the Queensland Government at the corner of Topaz and Gadaloff Roads. In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 27 students with 2 teachers and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent).
Alexander Prokhorov, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964, was born in Butchers Creek (then part of Peeramon) and attended Butchers Creek State School.
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