Yanco is a village in

Leeton Shire Leeton Shire is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Murrumbidgee River and falls within the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. The Shire i ...

in south western

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

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. Yanco is a Wiradjuri aboriginal language word meaning ''the sound of running water''. Yanco is located from Leeton along

Irrigation Way Irrigation Way is a major rural road that runs approximately through the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in south western New South Wales, Australia. Route Irrigation Way commences at the intersection with Newell Highway in Narrandera and head ...

. Yanco is home to the

Powerhouse Museum The Powerhouse Museum, formerly known as the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (MAAS), is a collection of 4 museums in Sydney, owned by the Government of New South Wales. Powerhouse is a contemporary museum of applied arts and sciences, explori ...

, McCaughey Park, Murrumbidgee Rural Studies Centre and

Yanco Agricultural High School The Yanco Agricultural High School, abbreviated as YAHS, is a government-funded co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary boarding school, located in Yanco in the Leeton Shire local government area, in the Riverina regi ...

Murrumbidgee Irrigation Murrumbidgee Irrigation Limited (MI) is one of five privately owned irrigation companies in New South Wales, Australia. It provides irrigation water and drainage services to an area known as the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA). MI manages 500 ...

builds the Roach’s Surge Reservoir near Yanco, holding up to 5 million tonnes of water. Yanco North Post Office opened on 1 March 1888. It was renamed ''Yanko'' in 1892 and ''Yanco'' in 1928.

Demographics

At the Yanco had a population of 506. That had dropped to 432 at the .

Football

The town has a team in the

Group 20 Rugby League Group 20 is a rugby league competition in the region of Griffith, New South Wales, Australia. The competition is played in six grades, with these being Under 16s, Under 18s, Women's League-Tag, Women's Tackle, Reserve Grade and First Grade. Cu ...

competition with neighbouring village

Wamoon Wamoon is a village in Leeton Shire in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamoon is located from Leeton along the Irrigation Way to the Leeton CBD and Henry Lawson Drive to the Leeton suburb of Wattle Hill. Wamoon provides a vil ...

, the Yanco-Wamoon Hawks. They are renowned for winning five successive titles from 1992 to 1996, a competition record. The club briefly merged with rivals

Narrandera Narrandera ( ), until around 1949 also spelled "Narandera", is a town located in the central Riverina region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town lies on the junction of the Newell Highway, Newell and Sturt Highway, Sturt highwa ...

from 2012 to 2014 as the Bidgee Hurricanes, but the sides demerged ahead of the 2015 season. They play at the Yanco Sports Ground, a picturesque oval located across the railway and irrigation channel from the town centre. The town had a defunct Australian Rules Football team, the Yanco Penguins, which played in the

South West District Football League The South West District Football League is an Australian rules football league based in South-western Victoria, with clubs located in the vicinity of Hamilton, Heywood and Portland. The league is a minor country league, with teams drawn from smal ...

and

Barellan & District Football League The Barellan & District Football League was an Australian rules football competition played in the vicinity of Barellan, New South Wales from 1911 until 1971. The league folded in 1971 after two of its clubs merged and left, another two followed i ...

before folding in 1971. The Whitton Football Club of the

Farrer Football League The Farrer Football Netball League (FFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing nine clubs based in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The league features three grades in the Australian rules footba ...

briefly changed its name to Whitton-Yanco in the early 1990s, however the Yanco part of the name was dropped when the club merged with Leeton in 1995.

Heritage listings

Yanco has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: *

Yanco Weir Yanco Weir is a heritage-listed weir at Yanco, Leeton Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1928 to 1929 by WC & IC. It is also known as Yanco Weir and site. The property is owned by Department of Planning and Infrastructure, a ...

* 259 Euroley Road:

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