Korrelocking, Western Australia

Korrelocking
Western Australia

Korrelocking town hall, 2013
Korrelocking
Coordinates 31°12′S 117°28′E / 31.200°S 117.467°E / -31.200; 117.467Coordinates: 31°12′S 117°28′E / 31.200°S 117.467°E / -31.200; 117.467
Population 76 (2006 census)[1]
Established 1911
Postcode(s) 6485
Elevation 343 m (1,125 ft)
Location
LGA(s) Shire of Wyalkatchem
State electorate(s) Central Wheatbelt
Federal Division(s) Durack

Korrelocking is a small town situated between Wyalkatchem and Trayning in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Korrelocking had a population of 76.[1]

During the construction of the Merredin to Dowerin railway line the government decided to establish a station in the area. The Yuragin progress association petitioned for a townsite to be declared at the station.

The town was gazetted in 1911 shortly before the opening of the railway line.[2]

In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding.,[3] which in effect saw Korrelocking as one of the first five bulk wheat locations on the Western Australian Government Railways network, and a site of the beginning of bulk wheat handling in Western Australia

The name of the town is an Aboriginal word for a nearby well that had been recorded when the area had been surveyed in 1892. The meaning of the name is not known.

A bioblitz was conducted in 2012 in a bush reserve between Korrelocking and Wyalkatchem. 54 people took part and collected samples of scorpions, pseudoscoprions, isopods, spiders and centipedes, including some new species.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Korrelocking (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Western Australian Land Information Authority. "History of country town names – K". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "Country elevators". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 6 July 1932. p. 10. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "2012 BioBlitz at Korrelocking". Bennelongia. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2016.

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