Wamoon

Wamoon
New South Wales

Wamoon Public School
Wamoon
Coordinates 34°31′47″S 146°19′54″E / 34.52972°S 146.33167°E / -34.52972; 146.33167Coordinates: 34°31′47″S 146°19′54″E / 34.52972°S 146.33167°E / -34.52972; 146.33167
Location 8 km (5 mi) from Leeton
LGA(s) Leeton Shire Council
County Cooper
Parish Tuckerbil
State electorate(s) Murray
Federal Division(s) Riverina

Wamoon is a village in Leeton Shire in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamoon is located 8.8 kilometres (5.5 mi) from Leeton along the Irrigation Way to the Leeton CBD and Henry Lawson Drive to the Leeton suburb of Wattle Hill. Wamoon provides a village of homes to the farmers of northern Leeton and there is a small primary school known as Wamoon Public School.

Wamoon Post Office opened in July 1920 and closed in 1983.[1]

In 1993 Geographical Names Board of New South Wales deleted Wamoon when the village was removed from official government publication of locality names. In May 2006 the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales approved the reinstatement of Wamoon as a village.[2][3]

Notes and references

  1. Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Retrieved 11 June 2009.
  2. "NSW Government Gazette" (PDF). New South Wales Government. Archived from the original (pdf) on 20 August 2006. Retrieved 6 August 2006.
  3. "After 12 Years Wamoon is once again a village". Weekend Advertiser. 5 August 2006. p. 8.

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