Tarcutta
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Tarcutta is a town in south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town is south-west of Sydney, east of the Hume Highway, It was proclaimed as a village on 28 October 1890. As of 2016, the town had a population of 446.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Tarcutta
- Australian place.state
- nsw
- Australian place.image
- Tarcutta truckie memorial.jpg
- Australian place.caption
- National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta
- Australian place.pop
- 446
- Australian place.postcode
- 2652
- Australian place.elevation
- 233
- Australian place.utc
- +10
- Australian place.timezone dst
- AEDT
- Australian place.utc dst
- +11
- Australian place.dist1
- 438
- Australian place.dir1
- SW
- Australian place.location1
- Sydney
- Australian place.dist2
- 456
- Australian place.dir2
- NE
- Australian place.location2
- Melbourne
- Australian place.dist3
- 45
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- Trucking industry
- Heritage listings
- Other features
- Climate
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Tarcutta is a town in south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town is south-west of Sydney, east of the Hume Highway, It was proclaimed as a village on 28 October 1890. As of 2016, the town had a population of 446.
It serves a local farming community relying for its prosperity mainly on sheep and cattle, and the interstate truckies who use the town as a halfway change-over point in the trade between the state capital cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tarcutta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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