Yarragadee Station is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a

cattle station In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm ( station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a '' grazier''. The largest cattle stat ...

. It is located about north of Mingenew and south of Mullewa in the

Mid West The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four Census Bureau Region, census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of ...

region of

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

. The station is located along the

Irwin River The Irwin River is a river in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It was named on 9 April 1839 by the explorer George Grey, while on his second disastrous exploration expedition along the Western Australian coast, after his friend Major ...

and occupies an area of . The property was established by Michael Morrissey at some time prior to 1886 and was well known by that time. Francis Pearse, who already owned a store in the area, acquired Yarragadee in 1903, paying £10,600 for it. Yarragadee is near

Yatharagga Yatharagga is an area associated with a homestead in the mid west of Western Australia (WA) near Yarragadee Station. It is located about north-west of Mingenew and about south-east of Geraldton. The area is also associated with two Aust ...

- an area associated with a number of space related tracking systems.

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{{Stations of the Mid West Western Australia Pastoral leases in Western Australia Stations (Australian agriculture) Mid West (Western Australia)

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