Coomberdale, Western Australia Explained

Type:town
Coomberdale
State:wa
Lga:Shire of Moora
Local Map:yes
Zoom:10
Coordinates:-30.4667°N 118°W
Postcode:6512
Est:1895
Elevation:220
Stategov:Moore
Fedgov:Durack
Dist1:194
Dir1:north
Location1:Perth
Dist2:20
Dir2:north
Location2:Moora

Coomberdale is a small town located along the Midlands Road between Moora and Watheroo in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It had 56 residents in the .

The Midland Railway Company constructed a railway siding in 1895 when the Midland line to Walkaway was opened. The town's name comes from a well that was named by the explorer Alexander Forrest when he surveyed a property for Edmund King who settled there in 1866.

The Coomberdale Hall, a timber framed, weatherboard clad structure with a corrugated iron roof, was built in about 1920. It is now heritage listed, and used as an adjunct to the adjoining community centre.[1]

The main industry in town is wheat farming with the town being a CBH Group receival site.[2]

A silicon producer, Simcoa, has a quartz mine[3] close to the town. The mineral mined there, Coomberdale chert, is situated in the Coomberdale (also known as Noondine) threatened ecological community that contains some threatened species such as Acacia aristulata and Cryptandra glabiflora.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Coomberdale Hall. State Heritage Office . Government of Western Australia - State Heritage Office. 21 April 2014.
  2. Web site: CBH Receival Sites - Contact Details . 2010 . 2011-02-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120318082458/https://www.cbh.com.au/media/120302/cbh%20receival%20sites%20-%20contact%20details.pdf . 2012-03-18 .
  3. Web site: Simcoa Operations - FAQ. 2009. 2011-02-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20110215220618/http://www.simcoa.com.au/faq.html. 15 February 2011. dead.
  4. Web site: Extension of Quartz Mining and Strategy for Resource Access and Biodiversity Conservation - Simcoas operations. 2001. 2011-02-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706122852/http://www.epa.wa.gov.au/docs/989_b1027.pdf. 2011-07-06. dead.