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.

Sustained and extensive widespread flooding in all main river systems reached record or near record levels in the Burdekin, Fitzroy and southern interior streams. Dislocation of traffic routes was fairly general, food drops being necessary in the central interior. At least 10 people lost their lives and hundreds of families had to be evacuated, particularly in the Rockhampton and Mackay areas. Bridges were swept away at Mitchell, Beaudesert and Ravenswood. The Marion Weir collapsed and the Burdekin River was over the Inkerman Bridge from 5th Feb. to 3rd March

Dugandan in high flood, 1954. 'John Oxley Library, State Library…