Korrelocking, Western Australia
Town in southwestern Australia
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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.[2]
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Korrelocking town hall, 2013 | |
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 Interactive map of Korrelocking | |
| Coordinates: 31°12′S 117°28′E | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | Western Australia |
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| Location |
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| Established | 1911 |
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| • Federal division | |
| Elevation | 343 m (1,125 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 58 (SAL 2021)[1] |
| Postcode | 6485 |
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.[3]
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,[4] 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.[5]
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.[6]
