Wanganella is a village community on the Billabong Creek

Billabong Creek

Billabong Creek is a creek in the Riverina region in New South Wales, Australia. The creek is part of the Murray-Darling River system. It is held to be the longest creek in New South Wales....

 in New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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. The settlement is on the Cobb Highway

Cobb Highway

The Cobb Highway is a State highway in western New South Wales, Australia.  From north to south the Cobb Highway begins at its junction with the Barrier Highway near Wilcannia and runs south through the townships of Ivanhoe, Booligal, Hay and Deniliquin.  It ends at Moama where the...

, located between Hay

Hay, New South Wales

Hay is a town in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales , Australia.  It is the administrative centre of Hay Shire Local Government Area and the centre of a prosperous and productive agricultural district on the wide Hay Plains....

 (to the north) and Deniliquin (to the south).  Wanganella is within the Conargo Shire Council

Conargo Shire Council

Conargo Shire Council is a local government area in New South Wales, Australia. It is the smallest Local Government Area in New South Wales. Conargo Shire was established in 1907. In 2001 the former Windouran shire was absorbed into Conargo Shire. This amalgamation resulted in an additional...

 local government area. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

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, Wanganella had a population of 235.

History

Land was subdivided at Wanganella and in 1864 allotments were sold. A traveller passing through Wanganella in mid-1865 described the township as consisting “of two public houses, a blacksmith’s shop, and a shoemaker’s shop”; he also stated that “a neat bridge” had been erected over Billabong Creek. Another report from 1865 stated there were twenty-five persons living at Wanganella, which had two inns, two stores and two butchers' shops.

Climate

Climate records have been kept for Wanganella since 1867. Temperature extremes are quite marked over the full year: the average maximum temperature in February is 31.6 °C (88.9 °F) and the average minimum temperature in July is 3.6 °C (38.5 °F). The average annual rainfall at Wanganella is 366.3 millimetres (14.4 in).