Apple Tree Creek

Apple Tree Creek is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.

Apple Tree Creek is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly known as Bodalla, the Dundaburra people of the Northern Kabi group name from the Gregory River Plum which to first Europeans looked like an apple. Prior to settlement of the Isis District which includes Apple tree Creek - the area was called Buth'arthtranslating to scrub. The town was renamed in 1962. In the 2016 census, Apple Tree Creek had a population of 639 people.

The area was called Buth'arth meaning scrub in Dundaburra language.European settlers entered the districtfrom the 1840s. The initial industries were grazing, sawmilling and then growing sugarcane.Apple Tree Creek Provisional School opened on 28 November 1887. It became Apple Tree Creek State School on 5 July 1897. It closed on 21 December 1969.In 1896 a railway line extending from Childers to Cordalba was erected, bypassing Apple Tree Creek.The Apple Tree Creek cemetery was established in 1896.The Apple Tree Creek Post Office opened around January 1909 (a receiving office had been open since 1898) and closed in 1975.St Anne's Anglican Church was dedicated on 10 July 1930 by Venerable William Powning Glover, Archdeacon of Toowoomba. It has since closed.At the 2011 census, Apple Tree Creek had a population of 509.