Traralgon is situated on expansive flat land in the Traralgon Creek valley catchment between the Great Dividing Range in the north and the Strzelecki Ranges in the south.

From his early years in Traralgon, Mac enjoyed exploring the environment around him, particularly Traralgon Creek.

The Traralgon Harriers are a running club that runs 5 or 6 km races every Thursday night and also organise Victoria's oldest marathon, the Traralgon Marathon, held every June.

Latrobe Valley Bus Lines are operated by Valley Transit, which runs connecting bus services in the Latrobe Valley area between Moe and Traralgon – consisting of inter-city services that run between Moe and Traralgon to nearby towns such as Morwell, Churchill and Yallourn North – and connecting town services that run in each major center.

V / Line runs a passenger rail service to Moe station as part of the Traralgon and Gippsland V / Line rail services which runs to Melbourne's major stations Southern Cross Station and Flinders Street Station.

Most of this section is to freeway standard, with the main outstanding work being the freeway bypass of Traralgon, although the highway through Traralgon has already been built to urban dual carriageway standard.

Amalgamation of the local councils under a commission saw the major civic centre move to Traralgon.

Latrobe Valley is currently the only large regional centre in Victoria that does not have a team participating in the Victorian Football League, despite the fact that the area within an approximate 35 km radius of Moe ( Drouin, Warragul, Trafalgar, Moe, Morwell, Churchill, Traralgon and other smaller towns ) has a population well over 100, 000, as large or larger than places such as Bendigo and Ballarat that do have teams participating in the VFL.

This service primarily catered for public servants travelling between the national capital and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ( ASIC ) centre in Traralgon.

In 1961 Traralgon formed its own borough, the Borough of Traralgon following a decade of lobbying to separate the urban areas of Traralgon from the Shire.

While the Latrobe River flows into Lake Wellington to the east of Sale and includes in its drainage basin a significant part of central Gippsland, the region conventionally known as the Latrobe Valley occupies a smaller area centred on the four major towns of Warragul, Moe, Morwell and Traralgon, between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the westernmost reaches of the Australian Alps to the north.

By the end of 1879, Walhalla had daily coach services connecting it to the railway line at Moe to the south and to Traralgon to the east, and its isolation had been considerably reduced.

Traralgon is part of the Latrobe Valley tri-city urban area, a small area of industry and agricultural land separates it from neighbouring Morwell.

The Traralgon central business district is centred around Seymour and Franklin Streets and includes an indoor shopping mall-Stockland Traralgon, however commercial and light industry sprawl along most of the eastern stretch of the Princes Highway.

Loy Yang Power Station is a brown coal fired power station located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Works included electrification to Traralgon, new Harris suburban trains, the Walker railmotors, and approximately 3, 000 new goods wagons.

GLV-10 in Traralgon was the first regional television station to launch in Australia, on 9 December 1961, originally covering the Gippsland and Latrobe Valley areas.

Following a pre-1999 election commitment to consider the feasibility of introducing fast rail services to regional centres, in 2000 the government approved funding for the Regional Fast Rail project, upgrading rail lines between Melbourne and Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and Traralgon.

It is east of Melbourne, north-west of Traralgon and located in the City of Latrobe.

The town in conjunction with neighbouring Traralgon has an Australian Rules football team Traralgon-Tyers United competing in the North Gippsland Football League.

Traralgon is a city located in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.

The greater Latrobe Valley urban area of which Traralgon is part has a population of approximately 125, 000.

The origin of the name Traralgon is uncertain.

The area around Traralgon was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s soon after being explored by Count Paweł Strzelecki on his return from the Snowy Mountains where he named Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

In 1877 the railway line from Melbourne was completed with a railway station at Traralgon giving the town a major economic boost.

Traralgon was part of the area administered by the Rosedale Roads Board, before the Shire of Traralgon was established in 1879.

It was not until the 1930s however that Traralgon began to move away from a farming based economy.

In 1936 Australian Paper Manufacturers established a paper mill at Maryvale, around from Traralgon.

The president of the Shire of Traralgon, Cr Clem Little met and welcomed the Queen, who was flown by the RAAF from Sale.

Traralgon was proclaimed a city in 1964.

The City of Traralgon and Shire of Traralgon continued a separate existence until they were amalgamated into the Shire of Latrobe in 1994.

Traralgon, with a more diversified economy, suffered to a lesser extent than the neighbouring towns of Morwell and Moe both of which relied almost exclusively on the power stations for their livelihood.

Traralgon grew strongly in the mid 2000s, with a figure of 2. 7 % making it the largest and fastest growing city in the Latrobe Valley.

Reedy Creek is a natural waterway, the course of which runs mostly through undeveloped territory east of Haines City.

It runs from Halls Creek in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to Wiluna in the mid-west region.

A road called Beulah Boulevard, which also runs south, becomes State Route 89A, and travels through Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona.

The northern area of the island features salty marshlands surrounding Egan ’ s Creek, which runs directly beneath Atlantic Boulevard in Fernandina Beach.

The Laguna's largest tributary is Santa Rosa Creek, which runs through Santa Rosa.

The boundary with Marin County runs from the mouth of the Estero Americano at Bodega Bay, up Americano Creek, then overland to San Antonio Creek and down the Petaluma River to its mouth at the northwest corner of San Pablo Bay, which adjoins San Francisco Bay.

Los Gatos Creek begins in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of the town and runs through the town parallel to Highway 17 all the way through neighboring Campbell and San Jose to the Guadalupe River, which flows into San Francisco Bay.

A walking, jogging, and biking trail called the Los Gatos Creek Trail runs alongside much of the creek from Lexington Dam through Vasona Park and Campbell to Meridian Avenue in San Jose.

A small group sailed up the Appomattox River looking for clear land, and finally settled in an area where Swift Creek runs into the Appomattox River, which they named Conjurer's Neck.

The primary stream of the county is Otter Creek, which runs through the county from the south to the north.

The primary stream of the county is Otter Creek, which runs through the county from the south to the north.

The Conotton Creek Trail is a rails-to-trails path that runs along Conotton Creek from Bowerston to Jewett in northern Harrison County, Ohio.

Boone Creek, the main creek that runs through Boone and the Appalachian State University campus is still nicknamed Kraut Creek since it is said that the creek used to smell of sauerkraut juice coming out of the plant.

It includes the Dicks Creek, Barkers Creek, and Wilmont communities, and US 74 / 23 runs as a four-lane divided highway through the township.

Savannah: Named for Savannah Creek, which runs through the district, Savannah Township is home to the Viewpoint, Pumpkintown, Savannah, and Fort Wilderness communities.

Scotts Creek runs through the township before emptying into Dillsboro Township.

The two main road routes through Deptford are the A200 which runs along Evelyn Street and Creek Road, and the A2 which runs along New Cross Road.

The Sligo furnace was built on Crooked Creek and produced 60 to 80 tons of pig iron a day with some runs of up to 100 tons.

* runs south from Sturgis through Battle Creek and ending near Charlevoix.