Korrelocking, Western Australia

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]

Korrelocking
Western Australia
Korrelocking town hall, 2013
Korrelocking
Coordinates31°12′S 117°28′E
Population76 (2006 census)[1]
Established1911
Postcode(s)6485
Elevation343 m (1,125 ft)
Location
LGA(s)Shire of Wyalkatchem
State electorate(s)Central Wheatbelt
Federal division(s)Durack

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.[4]

The name of the town is an Aboriginal word for a nearby water 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, pseudoscorpions, isopods, spiders. and centipedes, including some new species.[5]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Korrelocking (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  2. "History of country town names – K". Western Australian Land Information Authority. 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. "BULK HANDLING". The West Australian. Vol. XLIX, no. 9, 524. Western Australia. 5 January 1933. p. 50. Retrieved 4 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "2012 BioBlitz at Korrelocking". Bennelongia. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2016.

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