Top Springs is a town and locality in the

Northern Territory of Australia The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

located about south of the territory capital of Darwin at the junction of the Buchanan and Buntine highways. At the 2021 census, Top Springs had a population of 11 Top Springs consists of land around the intersection of the Buchanan and Buntine Highways of an area of about which was surveyed and proclaimed as a town in 1976. The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The locality is named after the town with the name being ultimately derived from springs located on the route of the

Murranji Track The Murranji Track or Murranji Stock Route is a stock route in the Northern Territory of Australia and it runs between Newcastle Waters and Top Springs, Northern Territory, Top Springs. The track was primarily operational between 1904 and the la ...

. Development within the town/locality consists of a roadhouse. Top Springs is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of

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and the local government area of the

Victoria Daly Region The Victoria Daly Regional Council is a Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory, local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The shire covers an area of and had a population of 3,138 in June 2018. History In October ...

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