Lankeys Creek is a rural community in the east part of the Riverina. It is situated by road, about 18 kilometres north west of Jingellic and 36 kilometres south east of Holbrook. Lankeys Creek Post Office was open briefly in 1890, reopened in 1906 and closed in 1961. Climate Being the first of the higher ground on the South West Slopes in a westerly wind, Lankeys Creek experiences cool maximum temperatures relative to its altitude (particularly in winter), averaging just in July. The site was located in a pine plantation at above sea level, operated from 1938 until 1969 by the Carabost Forest Headquarters. Notes and references Towns in the Riverina Towns in New South Wales