Wrights Creek, Queensland
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Looking west along the cane trameway to the Mulgrave Sugar Mill from Hill Road, Wrights Creek, 2018 | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 17°01′16″S 145°46′26″E / 17.0211°S 145.7738°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 22.7 km2 (8.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 160 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 7.05/km2 (18.3/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4869 | ||||||||||||
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Wrights Creek is a rural locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Wrights Creek had a population of 160 people.
The origin of the suburb name is from the Wright brothers who brought cattle to Wrights Creek in the year 1878.