Nangeenan
Western Australia
View of the Marleys Transport depot at Nangeenan in December 2014
Nangeenan is located in Western Australia
Nangeenan
Nangeenan
Coordinates31°32′S 118°10′E / 31.533°S 118.167°E / -31.533; 118.167
Population75 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)6414
Area184.6 km2 (71.3 sq mi)
LGA(s)Shire of Merredin
State electorate(s)Central Wheatbelt
Federal division(s)Durack

Nangeenan is a small townsite west of Merredin on Great Eastern Highway, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia (WA).

It has a local hall which has been in use since around the time of World War I.[2][3] During the same era, Nangeenan was the site of a "state farm",[4] a term used at the time for a research station of the WA Department of Agriculture.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Nangeenan (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
  2. ↑ "Nangeenan". Merredin Mercury. Vol. IV, no. 193. Western Australia. 4 May 1916. p. 2. Retrieved 29 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Nangeenan". Merredin Mercury. Vol. III, no. 141. Western Australia. 28 April 1915. p. 2. Retrieved 29 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "NANGEENAN". Western Mail. Vol. XXIX, no. 1, 493. Western Australia. 7 August 1914. p. 22. Retrieved 29 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ Cyril and Ethel Peet Memorial Fund (1908), Nangeenan State Farm homestead, retrieved 4 October 2022
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