Sugarloaf Creek is a pastoral region in central Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Sugarloaf Creek Road in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, 99 kilometres (62 mi) from the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 Australian Census Sugarloaf Creek had a population of 257.[2] The Sugarloaf Creek itself is a tributary of the Goulburn River in Australia.

Sugarloaf Creek Victoria
Sugarloaf Creek Ebden Station
Sugarloaf Creek
Coordinates	37°05′04″S 145°02′01″E
Population	244 (2016 census)[1]
Postcode(s)	3658
Location	99 km (62 mi) N of Melbourne 97 km (60 mi) SE of Bendigo 27 km (17 mi) N of Kilmore
LGA(s)	Shire of Mitchell
State electorate(s)	Euroa
Federal division(s)	Nicholls
Localities around Sugarloaf Creek: Glenaroua Hilldene Tallarook Glenaroua Sugarloaf Creek Tallarook Pyalong Broadford Broadford

The traditional owners of Sugarloaf Creek are the Taungurong people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds.[3]

Charles Hotson Ebden and Charles Bonney drove 10,000 sheep from Mungabareena station on the Murray on 1 March 1837 and reached Sugarloaf Creek station on about 14 March 1837. They set up their first sheep station adjacent to the intersection of Seymour Pyalong Road with Tallarook Pyalong Road, 37°05’04" S; 145°02’41" E.[4]

Sugarloaf Creek has the distinction of being the site of the first European settlement in inland Victoria, a sheep station, and subsequently the generator of the second and third ever European settlements in inland Victoria at Carlsruhe and Kilmore.[5]

William Hamilton took up the Sugarloaf Creek station after Ebden[6] and remained there for the rest of his life.[7]

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