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| Yalgoo Western Australia |
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| Population: | 164 (2006 Census) 1 | ||||||
| Established: | 1896 | ||||||
| Postcode: | 6635 | ||||||
| Elevation: | 318 m (1,043 ft) | ||||||
| Location: | |||||||
| LGA: | Shire of Yalgoo | ||||||
| State District: | North West | ||||||
| Federal Division: | Kalgoorlie | ||||||
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The townsite of Yalgoo is located in the Murchison region, 499 km north-north-east of Perth and 118 km east-north-east of Mullewa. Gold was discovered in the area in the early 1890s, and by 1895 there were 120 men working the diggings and buildings being erected. The goldfield warden asked for a townsite to be surveyed and gazetted, and following survey the townsite of Yalgu was gazetted in January 1896. The spelling Yalgu was used because of spelling rules for Aboriginal names adopted by the Lands & Surveys Department (the letter u best representing the "oo" sound). Within a month the Lands & Surveys had decided reluctantly to use the original Yalgoo spelling, and this spelling has been used ever since. Some doubt about the spelling being officially changed resulted in an amendment from Yalgu to Yalgoo being gazetted in 1938.
Yalgoo is an Aboriginal name first recorded for Yalgoo Peak by the surveyor John Forrest in 1876. The name is said to mean "blood" or "place of blood", derived from the word "Yalguru". An alternative view is that it is derived from the Yalguru bush which abounds in the area, and has blood red sap.
It was once the location of an important railway station (opened in 1896) on the Northern Railway. Yalgoo's importance declined in the years after World War II after the forging of an all-weather road between Wubin and Paynes Find, across Lake Moore.
Yalgoo is also a local government area in Western Australia.
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Pastoral Station names associated with Yalgoo
Note that some of these stations may lie outside of the local government boundary.
- Barnong
- Bunnawarra
- Carlaminda
- Dalgaranga
- Edah
- Gabyon
- Jingemarra
- Maranalgo
- Meka
- Melangata
- Mellenbye
- Mount Gibson
- Muralgarra
- Nalbarra
- Ninghan
- Noongal
- Oudabunna
- Thundelarra
- Wagga Wagga
- Wydgee
References
- ^ {Census 2006 AUS|id=SSC56106|name=Yalgoo (State Suburb)|quick=on|accessdate=2008-09-12}}
- Western Australian Land Information Authority. "History of names - Y". Retrieved on 2007-05-25.
Further reading
- Palmer, Alex. (1985) Yalgoo Fremantle, W.A: Lap Industries. ISBN 0959058400
See also
- Yalgoo (biogeographic region) - the ecological region
- Shire of Yalgoo - the local government region
- Northern Railway (Western Australia)
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