Timber Creek is home to many Aboriginal people from the Ngaliwurra tribe, who used to help white immigrants as guides in the area. In 1898 a police station was built, but it was nothing more than a hut with a goat pen. The station was not expanded until 1908. Today a small police museum is housed there. It is also a supply station with a gas station, grocery store, snack bar, souvenir shop, tourist information center and campsite.
As an economic factor on the Victoria River, fishing is very important on the one hand (especially Barramundi ), on the other hand tourism, as the area is a popular fishing paradise and organized boat tours start from here to see saltwater crocodiles , which - although actually on the northern lower reaches of the river at home - occasionally penetrate this far inland.
