POLICE are seeking urgent public help to identify a mystery location near Charters Towers which could help find missing man Jayden Penno-Tompsett.

Mr Penno-Tompsett, 22, was reported missing on January 3 after he was last seen on a rural road outside Charters Towers on December 31.

Charters Towers police officer-in-charge Senior Sergeant Graham Lohmann said while the area described by a witness was unique, police were yet to pinpoint it.

He said investigators hoped a member of the public could identify the area.

"The witness described the location (Mr Penno-Tompsett was last seen) as a rural property (just outside Charters Towers) on an unsealed road with a red steel fence," he said.

"On the property there was a bull skull on a post near a set of yards with silver-coloured fencing. A house was visible several hundred metres from the road. The unsealed road ran off a bitumen road."

Sen-Sgt Lohmann said police were also seeking information from residents of a rural property in the Charters Towers area who may have helped a young man on the morning of December 31.

It a understood Mr Penno-Tompsett, from NSW, and a travelling companion got into an argument on the side of the road as they headed north to Cairns where they were due to celebrate New Year's.

Mr Penno-Tompsett and the friend were the only ones in the vehicle, with others in their group travelling in a second car. The missing man has not touched his bank accounts since, only has the clothes he was wearing and did not have his phone when he disappeared.

Jayden's father Brendan Tompsett said he just wanted to know his son was OK.

"What we really want is we need to know that he's OK, as you can imagine the worst thing is the not knowing. We don't care what the issues were, that's really secondary at this point ... Just let us know he's safe," he said.

He described his son as "a bit wild" and said while he sometimes dealt with things alone and in his own time, this behaviour was out of the ordinary.

"To not be in touch with some of his mates and to not let anyone know (is unusual)," he said. "From what police have told me he hasn't used his bank account so that is fairly concerning - it's got scary."

Sen-Sgt Lohmann said serious concerns were held for Mr Penno-Tompsett's welfare.

Any information about Mr Penno-Tompsett's whereabouts can be provided by calling the Charters Towers station between 8am and 4pm on 4788 2555 or Policelink on 131 444.