Scenic Rim Official spatial — evidence class · Scenic Rim · QLD

Curtis Falls

Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it

Gazetted name -27.92558, 153.19237 waterfall

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.

Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A waterfall — a step in a watercourse steep enough that the water falls clear of the bed rather than running down it. The step is usually a band of harder rock the creek has been unable to cut through as fast as the softer rock below, so the drop moves slowly upstream over time and leaves a gorge behind it.

Curtis Falls sits on Cedar Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 22.8 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is basalt, mapped as Beechmont Basalt (Tlb) , oligocene - miocene in age. The survey describes it as: Olivine basalt Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

100% — Eucalyptus saligna or E. grandis tall open forest on Cainozoic igneous rocks 12.8.8 · Of concern Official spatial — evidence class

No register consulted records how far the water falls, and nothing here estimates it. This place is published because a register says it is here, not because a rule found it.

On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions

What each register holds about this place
Claim	What the record says	Evidence
Name	"Curtis Falls" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	No tenure record covers this point in the snapshot. Unresolved is published as unresolved.	—
Parcel	No cadastral parcel was resolved at this point.	—
Council area	This place sits inside Scenic Rim, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot.	—
Watercourse	Cedar Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 22.8 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Recorded as a waterfall in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map — covers Scenic Rim

Map of Curtis Falls and the starts of the 15 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

Panning stops just outside Scenic Rim, because the map archive is published one council area at a time. Every other council area Public Trails covers has a map of its own.

Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.

Is there a track to it Measured in plan and in section

The way reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

The nearest published way passes 16 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.

Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.

Approaches — one page each 15 published of 144 computed

144 ways in were computed and 15 are published here. The rest either reach the same ground from a few hundred metres away — the same drive and the same walk — or reach no lawful chain at all, which is only worth saying when nothing else does.