Wanganella is a village community on the

Billabong Creek The Billabong Creek, a partly perennial stream of the Murray River catchment within the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. At (with some estimates ranging up to ), Billabong Creek is belie ...

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, Australia. The settlement is on the

Cobb Highway Cobb Highway is a state highway in the western Riverina and the far western regions of New South Wales, with a short section in Victoria, Australia, designated part of route B75. Initially an amalgam of stock routes, the highway extends from ...

, located between

Hay Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep, or for smaller domesticat ...

(to the north) and

Deniliquin Deniliquin () is a town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, close to the border with Victoria. It is the largest town in the Edward River Council local government area. Deniliquin is located at the intersection of the Riverina ...

(to the south). Wanganella is within the

Edward River Council The Edward River Council is a local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. This area was formed in 2016 from the merger of the Deniliquin Council with the surrounding Conargo Shire. The combined area covers th ...

local government area. At the , Wanganella had a population of 30.Based on the resident population of meshblocks 10231240000, 10231373000, and 11205702900 fro
2074.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Mesh Block Counts, Australia, 2016
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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 and the average minimum temperature in July is . The average annual rainfall at Wanganella is .Wanganella ("Zara" station) climate averages
Bureau of Meteorology.

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{{authority control Towns in New South Wales Towns in the Riverina Edward River Council