Nubba, New South Wales

Nubba is a locality and former railway station on the Main South railway line in New South Wales, Australia, located midway between Wallendbeen and Harden. The station was open between 1882 and 1975 and has now been demolished.[2]

Nubba
New South Wales
Nubba is located in New South Wales
Nubba
Nubba
Coordinates34°32′S 148°14′E
Population77 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)2587
Location10 km (6 mi) NW of Murrumburrah
LGA(s)Hilltops Council
State electorate(s)Cootamundra
Federal division(s)Riverina

Nubba is also a civil parish of Harden County, New South Wales.[3][4][5]

Prime Minister Harold Holt's paternal grandparents owned a large farming property near Nubba. As a child, he lived there for a brief period and attended the local state school.[6]

At the 2006 census, Nubba had a population of 281 people.[7] By 2016 that had fallen to 76,[8] then increased by one to 77 at the 2021 census.[9]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Nubba (Suburb and Locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
  2. Nubba station. NSWrail.net, accessed 29 August 2009.
  3. Robert McLean, The New atlas of Australia : the complete work containing over one hundred maps and full descriptive geography of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, together with numerous illustrations and copious indices (Sydney :J. Sands, [1886) Map 11.
  4. "Harden County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
  5. County of Cowley and Co. Buccleuch New South Wales, 1871 map, County of Cowley and Co. Buccleuch New South Wales, 1871 map.
  6. Frame, Tom (2005). The Life and Death of Harold Holt. Allen & Unwin / National Archives of Australia. p. 4. ISBN 1-74114-672-0.
  7. Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Nubba (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  8. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Nubba". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  9. "2021 Nubba, Census All persons QuickStats". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
Preceding station Former Services Following station
Wallendbeen
towards Albury
 Main Southern Line Demondrille
towards Sydney



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