![]() The township developed after the railway line came through in 1867 Leichhardt noted the she-oaks growing in the creek bed. ![]() If every Oakey creek around the countryside had a town named after it we would have towns of this name all over the place but it fell only to this town on the Darling Downs to carry the name of its adjacent Oakey Creek. Click on any of the letters below to see the list of names starting with that letter: The area extends from Gin Gin and Eidsvold in the North and out to the west as far as Saint George, Surat, Miles and Taroom. Over the past twenty years I have gathered information about place names in South East Queensland and I set out here the results of my research.
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