Yanco

For other uses, see Yanco (disambiguation).

Yanco New South Wales
Yanco Hotel, welcome sign and a Bills horse trough
Yanco
Coordinates	34°36′0″S 146°24′0″E
Population	432 (2021 census)[1]
Postcode(s)	2703
Elevation	164 m (538 ft)
Location	3 km (2 mi) from Leeton
LGA(s)	Leeton Shire
County	Cooper
Parish	Yarangery
State electorate(s)	Murray
Federal division(s)	Farrer
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 24.0 °C 75 °F 11.4 °C 53 °F 391.4 mm 15.4 in

Yanco is a village with a population of 432 in Leeton Shire in south western New South Wales, Australia.^[1] Yanco is a Wiradjuri aboriginal language word meaning the sound of running water.^[2] Yanco is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Leeton along Irrigation Way. Yanco is home to the Powerhouse Museum, McCaughey Park, Murrumbidgee Rural Studies Centre and Yanco Agricultural High School. Murrumbidgee Irrigation builds the Roach’s Surge Reservoir near Yanco, holding up to 5 million tonnes of water.^[3]

Yanco North Post Office opened on 1 March 1888. It was renamed Yanko in 1892 and Yanco in 1928.^[4]

Football

The town has a team in the Group 20 Rugby League competition with neighbouring village Wamoon, 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 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 which played in the Farrer Football League along with Whitton, known as the Whitton-Yanco Tigers.

Heritage listings

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

• Yanco Weir^[5]
• 259 Euroley Road: Yanco Agricultural High School^[6]

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Yanco (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
2. "Yanco". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
3. "MIA one step closer to full automation". www.mirrigation.com.au.
4. Phoenix Auctions History. "Post Office List". Retrieved 11 February 2021.
5. "Yanco Weir and site". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H00969. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.
6. "Yanco Agricultural High School". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H02021. Retrieved 18 February 2020. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.

External links

Media related to Yanco, New South Wales at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station	Former services			Following station
Leeton towards Griffith		Griffith–Yanco Line		Terminus
Gogeldrie towards Hay		Hay Line		Narrandera towards Junee