Beelbangera

Beelbangera
Town
General store at Beelbangera
Beelbangera
Coordinates: 34°16′0″S 146°6′0″E / 34.26667°S 146.10000°E / -34.26667; 146.10000
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
LGA	City of Griffith
Location	567 km (352 mi) from Sydney 195 km (121 mi) from Wagga Wagga 7 km (4.3 mi) from Yenda 2 km (1.2 mi) from Griffith[1]
Government
• State electorate	Murray
• Federal division	Farrer
Population
• Total	358 (2021 census)[3]
Postcode	2680
County	Cooper

Beelbangera is a town in the north west of the Riverina and situated about 2 kilometres north-east of Griffith and about 7 kilometres south-west of Yenda. At the 2021 census Beelbangera had a population of 358.^[3]

The place name Beelbangera is derived from the local Aboriginal word meaning "native companion".^[4]

Beelbangera Post Office opened on 1 September 1919.^[5]

Notes and references

1. Travelmate Archived 24 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Beelbangera (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
3. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Beelbangera". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
4. "Beelbangera". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
5. Phoenixs Auctions History. "Post Office List". Retrieved 18 January 2021.

External links

Media related to Beelbangera at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station	Former services			Following station
Griffith towards Roto		Temora–Roto Line		Yenda towards Temora