Indigo Valley is a valley and bounded locality in Victoria, Australia stretching approximately between Yackandandah and the

Hume Highway Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route ...

near

Barnawartha Barnawartha is a small town located on the Hume Highway in regional north-east Victoria, Australia, approximately from Melbourne on the banks of Indigo Creek which runs into the Murray River to the north. Barnawartha commercial centre is locat ...

. The

Indigo Creek Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word "indigo" comes from the Latin word ''indicum'', m ...

flows through it. Indigo Valley was formerly part of the

Shire of Chiltern The Shire of Chiltern was a local government area about north-northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1862 until 1994. History Chiltern was first incorporated as a roa ...

but now forms part of the

Shire of Indigo The Shire of Indigo, a local government area (LGA) in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, lies in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 16,490. It includes the towns of Beechworth, Ch ...

, to which it lends its name. Indigo Valley has a

Country Fire Authority The Country Fire Authority (CFA) is a volunteer fire service responsible for fire suppression, rescues, and response to other accidents and hazards across most of the state Victoria, Australia. CFA comprises over 1,200 brigades organised in 21 ...

volunteer fire brigade and a state primary school called

Middle Indigo Primary School Middle or The Middle may refer to: * Centre (geometry), the point equally distant from the outer limits. Places * Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man * Middle Bay (disambiguation) * Middle Brook (disambiguation) * Middle Creek ...

. The population of Indigo Valley was 561 in the Australian 2006 Census2006 Census QuickStats
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Towns in Victoria (state) Shire of Indigo Valleys of Australia Landforms of Victoria (state) {{Hume-geo-stub