Tarcutta
Tarcutta is a town in south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town is 438 kilometres (272 mi) south-west of Sydney, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) 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.
| Tarcutta New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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National Truck Driver Memorial at Tarcutta | |||||||||||||||
Tarcutta | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°16′37″S 147°44′13″E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 446 (2016 census) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2652 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 233 m (764 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | AEDT (UTC+11) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | City of Wagga Wagga | ||||||||||||||
| County | Wynyard | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Wagga Wagga | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Riverina | ||||||||||||||
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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.
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