Western Australia – People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns

The total number of records captured during the month of November, 2025 was 11,984 – that’s our best month since the project started. Congratulations to the project team who are working so hard to make this project great!!

The list of captured records now includes ten new communities for which we have found people who are now part of the permanent dataset. These communities are Austin plus The Island Lake Austin, Balkuling, Bila Railway Siding, Haig, Harris, Jindong, Lennox, Old Onslow, and Yaloginda.

As you can see from the list below, some of the record numbers are very low. This happens when we are researching one community and come across records for another community that is on our list. We capture the strays as we go along because we don’t want to miss anything!!

Once our website and search engine is fully operational you will be able to access some of these records. Here are the latest figures followed by a simple line graph showing the growth in total numbers:

List of Communities
Progress Graph

List of Communities

Quick Tip: to quickly see if your favourite ghost town is already in this list, press CTRL+f [find].

Community Name (including alternate names for some communities)	Records Captured
25 Mile	4
36 Mile Police Station	52
4 Mile (Menzies)	2
45 Mile	3
90 Mile	319
Abbott’s	58
Agnew	4
Aldersyde	4
Aldinga	53
Anaconda	2
Argyle	1
Argyle Police Station	6
Arrino	2
Austin	3
Baandee	120
Balkuling	49
Bamboo Creek	38
Bandee	76
Bardoc	47
Barton	88
Benjaberring	13
Beria	1
Bernier Island	2
Big Bell	6527
Bila Railway Siding	1
Black Flag	43
Black Range	14
Bonnie Vale	178
Boogardie	1
Boorabbin	4
Bootenal	199
Boyadine	83
Boyerine	309
Broad Arrow	58
Brown Hill	173
Brown’s Mill	23
Buchanan River	5
Buldania	167
Bullabulling	26
Bullfinch	66
Bulong	798
Bummers Creek	15
Bungarun Lazarette	60
Bunjil	25
Buntine	122
Burakin	8
Burbanks	2
Burbidge	3
Burnakura	57
Burtville	41
Butcher’s Inlet	16
Butterfly	1
Calooli	30
Camden Harbour	14
Camden Harbour Expedition	8
Cane Grass Swamp Hotel	11
Canegrass	102
Carbine	438
Carinyah	36
Caron	11
Cashmans Bore	1
Celebration City	1
Chesterfield	1
Comet Vale	70
Condon	3
Coodardy	6
Coonana	91
Cork Tree Flat	3
Corunna Downs Station	17
Cossack	41967
Craiggiemore	9
Cuddingwarra	14
Cue	6002
Culham	180
Darlot	2
Dattening	3
David Copperfield Mine	13
Davyhurst	25
Day Dawn	3457
Delambre Island	2
Derdebin	4
Dinningup	2
Dinninup	1538
Diorite King	8
Dore Island	2
Dowerin Lakes	405
Dudawa	15
Duketon	12
Dundas	1
Dunnsville	1
East Kirup	51
East Kirup Timber Mill	8
East Kirupp	8
Edjudina	40
Ejanding	9
Elverdton	2
Eradu	650
Erlistoun	27
Eticup	7
Eucalyptus	152
Eucla	159
Euro	30
Ferguson Mill	104
Ferguson Timber Mill (Lowden)	1
Ferguson Timber Mill (Yarloop)	2
Feysville	293
Field’s Find	200
Fields Find	650
Fly Flat	5
Gabanintha	876
Galena	181
Galena Bridge	3
Gap Well	3
Garden Gully	9
Garden Well	2
Geraldine	141
Geraldine Mine	293
Ghooli	343
Golden Valley	14
Goodwood	29
Goodwood Timber Mill (Donnybrook)	888
Goomarin	1373
Goongarrie	6409
Gordon	5
Grants Patch	1
Grass Patch	15
Greenough River	492
Gum Creek	8
Gwalia	4685
Haig (Railway Siding)	3
Hampton Plains	7
Harris	6
Hawk’s Nest	53
Hawkes Nest	6
Hawkes Nest Gold Mine	4
Hawks Nest (Laverton)	9
Hearson Cove	1
Higginsville	695
Holden’s Find	2
Holyoake	10
Howatharra	2
Ida H	1
Ives Find	1
Jarman Island	40
Jibberding	158
Jindong	14
Jitarning	38
Jonesville	1
Kallaroo	64
Kamballie	130
Kanowna	12751
Kathleen	8
Kathleen Valley	29
Kintore	16
Kodj Kodjin	46
Kokeby	2
Kookynie	2232
Korrelocking	16
Kudardup	27
Kulja	24
Kunanalling	166
Kurnalpi	60
Kurrajong	8
Kwelkan	11
Lake Austin	178
Lake Darlot	15
Lancefield	8
Lawlers	18
Lennox	3
Linden	2
Londonderry	60
Ludlow	4
Ludlow (Capel / Busselton)	462
Ludlow Bridge	1
Malcolm	767
Mallina	10
Mangowine	33
Marchagee	8
Mark’s Siding	10
Marrinup	4
Maya	35
Merilup	12
Mertondale	5
Mia Moon	68
Minnivale	219
Mogumber	875
Mollerin	3
Mount Ida	2
Mount Jackson	16
Mount Kokeby	140
Mount Malcolm	325
Mount Margaret	25
Mount Monger	5
Mount Morgans	35
Mt Ida	1
Mulga Queen Community	190
Mulgabbie	5
Mulgarrie	2
Mulline	1
Mulwarrie	2
Mundaring Weir	277
Murrin Murrin	531
Nalkain	815
Nalkain Railway Siding	12
Nannine	281
Naretha Railway Siding	9
Needilup	2
Neta Vale Telegraph Station	16
New England	1
Niagara	294
Niagara (North)	5
Ninety Mile	139
Ninghan Station	15
Nippering	6
No 6 Pump Station (Ghouli)	44
Nomans Lake	17
North Bandee	40
Nugadong	766
Nullagine	17
Nungarin (North)	27
Nyamup	5
Old Dowerin	143
Old Halls Creek	3782
Onslow (Old)	27
Ora Banda	162
Paddington	7
Payne’s Find	103
Paynesville	22
Peak Hill	17
Piesseville	35
Pilbarra	30
Pindalup	19
Pindalup Ports No.1 Timber Mill (Dwellingup)	20
Pindalup Railway Siding	20
Pingarning	97
Pingin	3
Pinjin	25
Pinyalling	1
Plavins	15
Port George IV	1
Quindalup Timber Mills	3
Red Lake School	8
Redcastle	12
Reedy	14
Roaring Gimlet	149
Rothesay	42
Rothsay	65
Sandstone	20
Shannon	19
Shay Gap	1
Sherlock	3
Siberia	12
Sir Samuel	1
Smithfield	9
Spargoville	1
Speakman’s Find	1
Stake Well	2
Star Of The East	22
Stratherne	13
Sunday Island Misson Station	44
Surprise	71
Surprise South	5
Tampa	9
Tardun	1
Taylor’s Well	316
Taylors Well	22
Tenindewa	8
The Island Lake Austin	3
Tien Tsin	62
Trafalgar	346
Tuckanarra	17
Two Boys	13
Ularring	327
Ullaring	25
Vivien	33
Vosperton	1
Walgoolan	18
Warriedar	16
Webb’s Patch	1
Whim Creek	2
White Feather	813
White Hope	1
White Well	9
Wittenoom	1
Woodley’s Find	4
Woolgangie	3
Woolgar	318
Woop Woop Timber Mill	305
Wyening	30
Wyola	734
Xantippe	12
Yaloginda	10
Yandanooka	135
Yankee Town	4
Yarri	1
Yerilla	49
Yetna	58
Yornup	73
Youanmi	17
Youndegin	5
Yuba	21
Yundamindera	1
Yunndaga	324
Zanthus	20

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Author’s Note: This report is taken from The West Australian – 15 Aug 1941¹.

Farthest-east School.

“The State Government is about to provide a school for 20 children at Coonana, 100 miles east of Kalgoorlie on the trans-Australian railway. It will be the Education Department’s farthest-east school. The Commonwealth Government is building cottages for its railway employees at Coonana, where there are about 12 married men with families, and the department took advantage of the presence of builders to have the school erected at the same time. It will consist of a wooden classroom (20 ft. square), for the construction of which the tender of Henry Martin and Co., amounting to £627, has been accepted.”

The Coonana Primary School operated from 1942 until 1980². Coonana Siding was named after a nearby hill that was first recorded as Coonaanna by W.P. Goddard in 1890. The possible meaning of the word is “hill of ashes”³.

Sources

NEWS AND NOTES (1941, August 15). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 – 1954), p. 6. Retrieved October 25, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47156702 ↩︎
Wikipedia (2025). List of schools in rural Western Australia. Retrieved October 25, 2025, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_in_rural_Western_Australia ↩︎
PocketOz (2025). Let’s Go Travelling: Railway Ghost Towns and Sidings on the Nullabor Plain. Retrieved October 25, 2025, from https://pocketoz.com.au/rail/ghost-towns-nullarbor.html ↩︎

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Captured Records at 30 Nov 2025

List of Communities

Progress Graph

A new school for Coonana

Farthest-east School.

Sources