Numinbah Valley

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The Numinbah Valley is a valley and locality in the Gold Coast hinterland in South East Queensland. This Scenic Rim valley covers 116 km²{{cite web |url=http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/thegoldcoast/numinbah-history-2746.html |title=Numinbah History |publisher=Gold Coast City Council |access-date=27 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405090145/http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/thegoldcoast/numinbah-history-2746.html |archive-date=5 April 2013 |url-status=live }} and contains cleared grazing land, rocky outcrops, waterfalls, rainforest walks and good hinterland scenery. Lonely Planet has described the valley as the most beautiful in South East Queensland.{{cite book |title=Cycling Australia |last=Bain |first=Andrew |author2=Ethan Gelber |year=2009 |publisher=Lonely Planet |isbn=174104040X |page=291 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iei-_SxDCaYC |access-date=27 June 2013}}

Compared to other areas of the Gold Coast the Numinbah Valley has remained largely undeveloped in recent decades. To the east is the Springbrook plateau. On the eastern side of the valley is the Natural Bridge in Springbrook National Park and to the west lies the Lamington Plateau and the Lamington National Park. To the south is the Tweed Valley in northern New South Wales.

Vegetation in the valley includes dry and wet sclerophyll forest. The valley is part of the upper catchment area for the Nerang River which flows into the Hinze Dam in the lowest elevated and most northern part of the valley. The communities of Advancetown and the small township of Numinbah are located in Numinbah Valley.

The river which lies in the Numinbah valley region is home to the duck billed platypus. The platypus is regularly seen in Bonchow park and Forest park in Numinbah valley. recent studies show that most of the platypus population on the Gold Coast lies in Numinbah valley and Canungra fresh water streams including Scenic Rim suburbs such as Palen Creek, Rathdowney, Mount Barney and surrounding suburbs.

The Nerang–Murwillumbah Road runs through from north to south. {{cite map |url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11675489 |title=Numinbah Valley, Queensland |publisher=OpenStreetMap |access-date=25 February 2022}}

The valley was first explored by timber cutters seeking cedar in 1845.{{cite book |title=Heritage Trails of the Great South East |last=Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland) |author-link=Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland) |year=2000 |publisher=State of Queensland |isbn=0-7345-1008-X |pages=20 }} Bullocks hauled the felled timber to Nerang. Later in the 1860s, when a route to the Tweed Valley was discovered as surveyors mapped the Queensland/New South Wales border, settlers moved into the area.

A township developed in the 1880s.

A sawmill operated from 1909 until 1944 when agriculture and dairying became the primary industries.

Numinbah Provisional School opened on 7 February 1927. In 1938 it became Numinbah Valley State School.{{Citation|author1=Queensland Family History Society|title=Queensland schools past and present|publication-date=2010|edition=Version 1.01|publisher=Queensland Family History Society|isbn=978-1-921171-26-0}}

In the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Numinbah Valley had a population of 218 people.{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC32215|name=Numinbah Valley (SSC)|accessdate=20 October 2018|quick=on}}

In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Numinbah Valley had a population of 212 people.{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL32196|name=Numinbah Valley (SAL)|access-date=28 February 2023|quick=on}}

At one of three places in Queensland perlite is extracted from a deposit in the valley and trucked to Sydney.{{cite book|last=Kogel|first=Jessica Elzea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNicdkuulE4C|title=Industrial Minerals and Rocks: Commodities, Markets, and Users|author2=Nikhil C. Trivedi|author3=James M. Barker|publisher=SME|year=2006|isbn=0873352335|page=687|access-date=27 June 2013}}

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The Numinbah Correctional Centre is located within the locality.

A Numinbah Valley Landcare group operates in the valley.

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Numinbah Valley State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 2270 Nerang–Murwillumbah Road ({{coord|-28.1486|153.2272|type:edu_region:AU-QLD|name=Numinbah Valley State School}}).{{cite web|url=https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/state-and-non-state-school-details/resource/5b39065c-df32-415c-994c-5ff12f8de997|title=State and non-state school details|date=9 July 2018|publisher=Queensland Government|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121065959/https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/state-and-non-state-school-details/resource/5b39065c-df32-415c-994c-5ff12f8de997|archive-date=21 November 2018|access-date=21 November 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.numinbahvalleyss.eq.edu.au|title=Numinbah Valley State School|access-date=21 November 2018|archive-date=8 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008231007/https://numinbahvalleyss.eq.edu.au/|url-status=live}} In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 14 students with 7 teachers (2 full-time equivalent) and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent).{{cite web|url=http://www.acara.edu.au/docs/default-source/default-document-library/school-profile-20172c7b12404c94637ead88ff00003e0139.xlsx?sfvrsn=0|title=ACARA School Profile 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122010027/http://www.acara.edu.au/docs/default-source/default-document-library/school-profile-20172c7b12404c94637ead88ff00003e0139.xlsx?sfvrsn=0|archive-date=22 November 2018|access-date=22 November 2018}}

Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre is an Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre at 1721 Nerang–Murwillumbah Road ({{coord|-28.1096|153.2437|type:edu_region:AU-QLD|name=Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre}}).{{cite web|url=https://www.numinbaheec.eq.edu.au|title=Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre|access-date=21 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031032022/http://www.numinbaheec.eq.edu.au/|archive-date=31 October 2018|url-status=live}}

There is no secondary school in Numinbah Valley. The nearest secondary school is Nerang State High School in Nerang to the north-east.{{Queensland Globe|accessdate=8 October 2020}}

The Gold Coast Hinterland Great Walk traverses the valley from O'Reilly's Guesthouse in the west to Springbrook National Park to the east.

Bornhoffen PCYC or the Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre caters for large groups of students. These large recreational facilities are situated in the southern and highest part where the headwaters of the Nerang River coalesce.

Numinbah Valley has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

• 365 Chesters Road: Banana Packing Shed{{Hsp}}Gold Coast Local Heritage Register - A to M, pp. 5-7
• 2136 Nerang Murwillumbah Road: Numinbah Valley School of Arts{{Hsp}}{{cite QHR|19539|Numinbah Valley School of Arts|602419|accessdate=19 June 2013}}{{Hsp}}Gold Coast Local Heritage Register - N to Z, pp. 89-90

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• Fassifern Valley
• List of valleys of Australia
• Lockyer Valley
• Samford Valley

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• {{Cite web|title=Gold Coast Local Heritage Register - A to M|url=https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/documents/bf/local-heritage-register-a-m.pdf|access-date=26 August 2020|website=Gold Coast City Council}}

• {{Citation|author1=Holt|first=R. W.|title=A history of the Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches in Southport and environs, leading up to the inauguration of the Southport Uniting Parish|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/234598452|publication-date=1978|publisher=Southport Uniting Parish|author2=}}

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• {{cite web|title=Gold Coast Inner Hinterland|url=http://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/gold-coast-inner-hinterland|work=Queensland Places|publisher=Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland}} — includes Numinbah Valley

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