Explore Eight Mile Creek, Queensland, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Eight Mile Creek, QLD map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets — plus a labelled MGA grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Eight Mile Creek, Queensland, Australia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Queensland or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Eight Mile Creek and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Geoscience Australia National Base Map — seamless topographic mapping covering the mainland, Tasmania and the external territories. NATMAP 250K shows the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 map sheets, mosaicked nationwide — the printed sheets generations of Australians navigated the outback with. The search box finds any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Eight Mile Creek.
Reading the map like a paper sheet. Click Grid to overlay the Map Grid of Australia (MGA), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an MGA grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what emergency services and search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load, which across much of inland Australia is most of the time.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Locality | Eight Mile Creek |
| State | Queensland (QLD) |
| Local Government Area | Burdekin Shire |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving |
| Remoteness | Remote Australia |
| Latitude | -20.28056 |
| Longitude | 147.2209 |
| Area | 319.1 km² |
| Postcode | 4807 |
| Area Code | 07 |
| Distance to Brisbane | 993 km northwest |
Eight Mile Creek is a locality in the Burdekin Shire local government area of Queensland, Australia. The locality covers an area of 319.1 km². It lies approximately 993 km northwest of Brisbane. Eight Mile Creek is located at 20.2806°S, 147.2209°E. It observes Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving. Postcode: 4807. The Australian Bureau of Statistics classifies the area as Remote Australia.
Eight Mile Creek flows through a landscape of rust-red earth and hardy, sun-bleached grasses, a testament to the persistent Queensland sun. It lies 120.8 km south-south-east of Kirwan, QLD (from Kirwan, QLD: bearing 154°T), and is situated 71.9 km south-south-west of Home Hill. The creek itself, often a shallow ribbon of silver in the drier months, carves a gentle, winding path through the undulating terrain, fringed by scattered eucalypts whose pale bark peels like ancient parchment. The air here carries a dry, earthy scent, punctuated by the occasional sweet perfume of unseen wildflowers, and in the late afternoon, the light softens, casting long, attenuated shadows that stretch across the paddocks.
Historically, the land surrounding Eight Mile Creek has been shaped by the rhythms of grazing and agriculture, an enduring legacy of the pastoralists who first settled these parts. The local economy, though modest, remains anchored to the land, with cattle properties forming the backbone of its sustenance, their vast expanses dotted with the weathered roofs of homesteads. Evidence of earlier endeavours can still be glimpsed in the occasional rusted piece of machinery half-swallowed by the scrub, whispers of a time when the land yielded its bounty to a different kind of labour. The quietude of Eight Mile Creek is its character, a place where the loudest sounds are often the wind rustling through the dry leaves or the distant lowing of cattle.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Eight Mile Creek, Queensland. Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorially written description provides background on Eight Mile Creek, in the Burdekin Shire local government area.
Detailed location data for Eight Mile Creek includes the postcode (4807), telephone area code (07), and local government area (Burdekin Shire), with an ABS remoteness classification of Remote Australia. These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Australian city, town or locality.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name; offers Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled Map Grid of Australia (MGA) so the map can be read like a printed topographic sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an MGA grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020) and enriched with GeoNames and Australian Bureau of Statistics data, matched by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Eight Mile Creek is identified even where the name is shared across multiple localities.
| Page generated | October 2026 |
| Location data | Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020); enriched with GeoNames and ABS 2021 Census data, matched by coordinate proximity |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; © Geoscience Australia National Base Map and NATMAP 1:250 000 (CC BY 4.0); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Description | Editorial description generated with AI assistance from verified Geoscape, ABS and GeoNames location data. |