Micket Creek, Northern Territory Explained

Type:suburb
Micket Creek
State:nt
Alternative Location Map:Australia Darwin
Coordinates:-12.369°N 130.9524°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Pop:0
Established:29 October 1997
Established Footnotes:[2]
Postcode:0822[3]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Dist1:12
Dir1:E
Location1:Darwin
Local Map:yes
Zoom:12
Lga:Litchfield Municipality
Stategov:Nelson[4]
Fedgov:Lingiari[5]
Maxtemp:32.1
Maxtemp Footnotes:[6]
Mintemp:23.2
Rainfall:1725.1
Near-N:Beagle Gulf
Near-Ne:Beagle Gulf
Near-E:Shoal Bay
Near-Se:Shoal Bay
Near-W:Buffalo Creek
Holmes
Near:Micket Creek
Footnotes:Locations
Adjoining localities[7] [8]

Micket Creek is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about east of the territory capital of Darwin.[1] [3]

Micket Creek consists of land located on the south coast of Shoal Bay. It is named after Micket Creek, which is a stream flowing through the locality into Shoal Bay and whose name first appears in 1869 in the records associated with the survey of what is now the Darwin hinterland overseen by George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 29 October 1997.[7] [1] [2]

The locality contains the Micket Creek Shooting Complex, a facility opened in 1997 to accommodate the needs of four Darwin-based shooting organisations and which is operated by the NT Firearms Council under lease from the Northern Territory Government.[9]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Micket Creek had no people living within its boundaries.

Micket Creek is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Nelson and within the local government area of the Litchfield Municipality.[5] [4] [8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Place Names Register Extract for Micket Creek . NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. 15 May 2019.
  2. Web site: Palmer . M.J. . Place Names Act, NAMING OF PUBLIC PLACE . Northern Territory Government Gazette . Northern Territory Government . 15 May 2019 . 7–9 . 29 October 1997. the localities shown on the plan appearing in the schedule be named Acacia Hills, Bees Creek, Berry Springs, Black Jungle, Blackmore, Coolalinga, Daly, Darwin River, Fly Creek, Freds Pass, Girraween, Holtze, Howard Springs, Hughes, Humpty Doo, Knuckey Lagoon, Lambells Lagoon, Livingstone, Lloyd Creek, Manton, McMinns Lagoon, Micket Creek, Middle Point, Noonamah, Southport, Tumbling Waters and Virginia .
  3. Web site: Micket Creek Postcode. postcode-finders.com.au . 15 May 2019.
  4. Web site: Division of Nelson . Northern Territory Electoral Commission. 15 May 2019.
  5. Web site: Federal electoral division of Lingiari. Australian Electoral Commission. 15 May 2019.
  6. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics DARWIN AIRPORT (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 1 May 2019.
  7. Web site: Micket Creek . NT Atlas and Spatial Data Directory . Northern Territory Government . 15 May 2019.
  8. Web site: Litchfield Municipality Localities (map) . Northern Territory Government . 15 May 2019 . 29 October 1997 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190318101346/https://placenames.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/404774/LitchfieldA3map.pdf . 18 March 2019 . dead .
  9. Web site: Mickett Creek Complex . NT Firearms Council . 15 May 2019.