Wamoon, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Wamoon
state = nsw


caption = Wamoon Public School
lga = Leeton Shire Council
postcode =
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pop =
elevation=
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county = Cooper
stategov = Murrumbidgee
fedgov = Riverina
dist1 = 8
location1= Leeton

Wamoon is a small town in Leeton Shire in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamoon is located 8km from Leeton along the Irrigation Way to the Leeton CBD and Henry Lawson Drive to the Leeton suburb of Wattle Hill. Wamoon provides a village of homes to the farmers of northern Leeton and there is a small primary school known as Wamoon Public School.

In 1993 Geographical Names Board of New South Wales deleted Wamoon when the village was removed from official government publication of locality names. In May 2006 the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales approved the reinstatement of Wamoon as a village [cite web | url = http://www.advertising.nswp.commerce.nsw.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/erwqpodec3756labqpreqhvdyg6olsljmmxfxuugcjn64pi3fd7wtyn3vzyb7l4mn5kzl63nvzm62d/5th_May-Part_F.pdf | title = NSW Government Gazette | format = pdf | publisher = New South Wales Government | accessdate = 2006-08-06] [cite news | publisher = Weekend Advertiser | title = After 12 Years Wamoon is once again a village | pages = 8 | date = 2006-08-05 ] .

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