| Type: | town |
| Ogilvie | |
| State: | wa |
| Lga: | Shire of Northampton |
| Local Map: | yes |
| Zoom: | 9 |
| Coordinates: | -28.1403°N 114.6478°W |
| Postcode: | 6535 |
| Stategov: | Moore |
| Fedgov: | Durack |
Ogilvie is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Other than sheep, agriculturally the area was known for wheat, barley, oats, lupins, Wimmera rye, and clover.[1]
The area is about 70 kilometres north of Geraldton, and includes the small Ogilvie Nature Reserve.[2]
The town was named by 1916 as a farming community,[3] likely to have been named after Andrew Jameson Ogilvie (–8 October 1906),[4] the land owner of the nearby Murchison House Station. Over time the locale was serviced by a railway siding of the same name.
The Ogilvie State School was in existence by 1917,[5] while two acres of land was set aside for a tennis court in the same year.[6] The Ogilvie Agricultural Hall was opened in May 1919.[7] This public hall was used for dances, a church, and as the local school.[8] [9] By 1953, the hall also had a supper room and nursery.
The Ogilvie and District Branch of the Primary Producers' Association was re-formed in July 1925.[10] Its representations included to the Western Australian Minister for Agriculture for emus to be declared vermin following continued widespread crop destruction.[11]
Tennis continued to be an important community activity, with new tennis courts constructed by and opened in December 1946.[12] In that year, the wheat and barley crops were only a moderate harvest, an abundance of emus, but a notable impact of foxes on lambing stock.
Efforts were made to form a fire brigade in 1952.[13]