Slacks Creek, Queensland

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Slacks Creek
city = Logan City
state = qld


caption =
fedgov = Division of Rankin
stategov = Electoral district of Waterford
Electoral district of Woodridge
lga = Logan City
postcode = 4127
pop = 5,964 (2006 census)
dist1 = 21
location1= Brisbane GPO
near-nw = Underwood
near-n = Springwood
near-ne = Daisy Hill
near-w = Woodridge
near-e = Shailer Park
near-sw = Logan Central
near-s = Meadowbrook
near-se = Tanah Merah

Slacks Creek is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia.

The creek that gave its name to the district was named after the Slack family who had a cattle run there before the days of closer settlement. The Aboriginal name for it was Mungaree, place of fishes, which is the name they gave to their property.

External links

* [http://www.logan.qld.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/70026FF1-AA16-4905-BA95-0E6D88989DC9/0/LoganMap.pdf Logan City Map]

References

http://www.dovenetq.net.au/~piula/Placenames/page59.html