Please note, although your property may not have been directly affected by this flood event, the event has been included in your suburb listing because according to the Bureau of Meteorology river gauge data, a catchment near your suburb recorded a high mark. This event may have affected your suburb.

Flood and gale at Brisbane and Ipswich (from the Courier files, 19th to 22nd March, 1864): Very seldom indeed is the neighbourhood of Brisbane visited by a gale of wind of so lengthy a duration and of so violent a character as that which commenced on Thursday night last (17th March) and terminated on Saturday. It was throughout accompanied by heavy and continuous rains, which beat into the windows of the best-protected houses, and did a great deal of damage generally.

Between the hours of 9 am on Friday until 9 am on Saturday no less than 6.72 inches of rain fell; and in such a manner as to defy every effort made to subvert its penetrating power. Out of doors umbrellas were useless, and indoors the rain made its way under eaves through crevices in shingles - in fact, it came in in every conceivable way.

On Saturday night the river began to rise, and it was evident that a flood was impending. The telegraph posts at the One-mile Creek Bridge, Ipswich, which had been raised 20 feet higher than they were at the flood of 1863, were swept away, although they had been let into the ground to a depth of 9 feet and supported by struts. The water at Brisbane rose throughout the whole of Sunday, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon Albert Street, from Alice Street to Charlotte Street, was impassable, and many of the residents of Frog's Hollow had to abandon their tenements. Raft's Wharf was 5 feet under water, as also were Harris's, Forrests', and Towns'. The water went up Russell Street as far as Mr. Kinchela's store. At the 3 miles scrub the water rose 25 feet above the ordinary level. At Milton much damage was done, and the whole of the cemeteries were under water.