This is a list of locality names and populated place names in the state of Victoria, Australia, outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. It is organised by region from the south-west of the state to the east and, for convenience, is sectioned by Local Government Area (LGA). Localities are bounded areas recorded on VICNAMES (the Register of Geographic Names), although boundaries are the responsibility of each council. Many localities cross LGA boundaries, some being partly within three LGAs, but are listed here once under the LGA in which the major population centre or area occurs.
The Registrar of Geographic Names, supported by Geographic Names Victoria (GNV), administers the naming or renaming of localities (as well as roads, and other geographic features) in Victoria, and maintains the Register of Geographic Names, referred as VICNAMES, pursuant to the Geographic Place Names Act 1998. GNV has issued the mandatory Naming rules for places in Victoria, Statutory requirements for naming roads, features and localities – 2022 (naming rules), and which are based on international, national standards and policies in naming of such places. Detailed maps showing locality boundaries within a LGA are available on the Land Use Victoria website.
Introduction Although the names of localities may in some cases be the same as parishes (surveyed cadastral divisions), their boundaries often differ. For instance the locality of Tyrendarra contains part of the parish of Narrawong to the west of the Fitzroy River, due to the township being established on the western border of the parish and postal services etc.to that area being supplied from Tyrendarra (the first two subscribers to the telephone service in 1925 were resident in the parish of Narrawong).Learmonth, Noel F. (1970). Four Towns and a Survey. Hawthorn Press: Melbourne The locality of Tyrendarra East also lies within the parish.
Bracketed behind locality names are the names of official neighbourhoods (unbounded areas listed by the Registrar of Geographic Names) that lie generally within the locality. The locality of Ouyen contains eighteen neighbourhoods, five of which once had a railway station and fourteen of which once had a post office. The amalgamation of farm properties, the consequent reduced population, closure of postal and railway facilities has led to the amalgamation of erstwhile localities, although those living there would not consider themselves to be living in Ouyen and their mail would still be addressed accordingly. In contrast, those living in the neighbourhood of Narrawong East would all give their address as Tyrendarra. The reason for the existence of the named neighbourhood was the State School (now closed) of the same name, nearer to Tyrendarra township than the Tyrendarra school, but within Narrawong parish and named accordingly. This is borne out by the official coordinates being those of the school. Neighbourhoods, with geographic coordinates, can be found through the Land Use Victoria via the VICNAMES Register.
Also bracketed are earlier names (or alternative official spellings or style) for a locality; few names have changed once established but Boggy Creek, Muddy Creek and Cannibal Creek gained more respectable names when a township was surveyed. The removal of the possessive apostrophe in place names is not recorded, but the more recent possessive to adjectival changes are (Darlot's Creek became Darlots Creek and later Darlot Creek).
Names from the extended postcode (mail destination) list are included. When the new Australian postcode system was introduced in Victoria in 1967 all mail destinations were assigned postcodes based on the mail routing. Many localities share postcodes with nearby localities; some named localities have two or three different postcodes because different mail routes traversed their area. Postcodes were assigned outside the (then) metropolitan area along radial lines from Melbourne, from towards the south-west to towards the south-east numbered from 3211 to 3996 in a clockwise direction.
The names of all Post Offices/Receiving Offices (PO/RO), Telegraph/Telephone Offices (TO) open at any time in Victoria have been recorded by Phoenix Auctions HistoryPhoenix Auctions lists and where the location is accurately known, and where the name of the office is not simply the surname of the operator of the facility, its name has been included.
For (linked) localities with Wikipedia articles further information on the bracketed names may be expected within the articles. For those lacking articles the range of years the locality (or a bracketed area) had a post, telegraph or telephone office are recorded as an approximation of the establishment of the locality as a populated entity, and as some indication of its life as a viable community.
All names italicised have never had a post or telegraph office open under the exact name (apostrophisation excluded).
Shire of Glenelg
Allestree Bahgallah (1878–1977) Bolwarra (1902–1907 see Allestree) Breakaway Creek (1937–1963 see Condah) Brimboal (1873–1957) Cape Bridgewater (Bridgewater Lower, Lower Cape Bridgewater) Carapook (?–?) Cashmore (1913–1973 Cashmore Heath) Casterton (The Glenelg) Condah (Condah Swamp) Corndale (Heath Field) Dartmoor (Woodford Inn) Digby (1858– Myaring, Rifle Downs) Drik Drik (1872–1971) Drumborg (1889–1957 Sinclair, West Sinclair) Dunrobin (1912–1967) Dutton Way (see Portland) Gorae (1904–1975) Gorae West (1913–1957 Curries) Grassdale (1885–1969 Miakite) Greenwald (1884–1971 Greenwald East) Heathmere (1936–1969 Heathmere Siding) Henty (Wurt Wurt Koort) Heywood (Fitzroy Crossing, Edgar's) Homerton (1903–1919) Hotspur (1860–1971) Killara (1914–1918 Mocamboro) Lake Condah (Condah Mission, Condah South -see Condah) Lake Mundi (1877–1976 Tullich) Lindsay (1849–1871 Munro's Inn, Border Post) Lyons (1889–1971 Glenaulin, Lower Crawford) Merino (Talisker) Milltown (1891–1974) Mount Eckersley Mount Richmond (1892–1976 Kentbruck, Mount Richmond South, Tarragal) Mumbannar (1887–1971 Marp, Rennicks, Wanwin) Myamyn (1875–1971) Nangeela (1911–1957 Nelangie) Narrawong Nelson (Discovery Bay, Mouzie, Wade Junction) Paschendale (1921–1948) Portland (Portland South, Portland Junction) Portland North (1904–1974 see Portland) Portland West (1902–1970 Cape Nelson, Trewalla see Portland) Sandford (Moredun) Strathdownie (1877–1977 Ardno, Kaladbro, Lockinon, Malanganee, Myaring Bridge, Puralka, Strathdownie East, Strathdownie West, Wilkin) Tahara (C1871–1965) (Tahara North) Tahara Bridge (1902–1960) Tahara West (1914–1968) Tyrendarra (Mount Clay, Narrawong East) Wallacedale (1899–1975) (Wallacedale North) Wando Bridge (1922–1965) Wando Vale (1901–1957 Wando Dale) Warrock (Roseneath) Winnap (1915–1971 Camp Corner, Drik Drik North)
Shire of Moyne
Allansford Ayrford (1945–1967) Ballangeich (1868–1957 Ballangeich North) Bessiebelle (1884–1972) Broadwater (1878–1993 Deep Creek, Dunmore) Caramut (Muston's Creek) Chatsworth (1867–1977) Codrington (1878–1976) Crossley (1868–1971) Cudgee (1875–1976) Darlington (1848–1994 Elephant Bridge, Terrinalllum) Dundonnell (1891–1969 Mount Fyans, Mount Violet) Ellerslie (1869–1991) Framlingham Framlingham East (1925–1945) Garvoc (1869– Yallook Bridge) Gerrigerrup Grassmere (1884–1993 Cooramook, Grassmere Junction) Hawkesdale (Clonleigh, Hawkesdale West) Hexham (1857–1994 Boortkoi) Killarney (1862–1993) Kirkstall (1865–1968) Knebsworth (1902–1945) Kolora (1871–1965 Wooriwyrite) Koroit Laang (1879–1966 Arundel) Macarthur (Ardonachie, Donovans Lane, Moyne Falls, Ripponhurst, Weerangourt) Mailor Flat (1881–1994 Mailor's Flat, Mailer Flat) Mepunga (1902–1928) Mepunga East (1889–1968) Mepunga West (1925–1976) Minhamite (1918–1974) Minjah Mortlake (Barnie Bolac, Murchs Corner) Nareeb (Nareeb Nareeb) Naringal Naringal East Nirranda (1871–1969 Delaney Corner) Nirranda East (1902–1920) Nirranda South (1938–1969) Nullawarre (1879–1994) Nullawarre North Orford (1865–1977) Panmure Peterborough Port Fairy (Belfast, Aringa, Bootahpool) Pura Pura (1916–1966) Purdeet (1918–1944) Purnim Purnim West Rosebrook (1865–1977) Southern Cross (1880–1969) St Helens (1902–1967) Taroon Tarrone (1953–1957) The Cove (1928–1960) The Sisters (1899–1977 Sisters Creek) Toolong (1926–1972 Moyne, Moyne Siding, Moyneview) Tower Hill (1924–1968) Tyrendarra East (1902–1975) Wangoom (1877–1994) Warrabkook (1902–1930 Spring Creek) Warrong (1892–1958) Willatook (1921–1968) Winslow (1865–1988) Woolsthorpe Woorndoo (Woorndoo Upper) Yambuk Yarpturk (1898–1968)
City of Warrnambool
Allansford (Allans Forest, Allansford Butter Factory, Lake Gillear) Bushfield (Merri View) Dennington (1863– ) Illowa (1875–1996) Warrnambool (Warrnambool South, Warrnambool East, Warrnambool North, Warrnambool West, Warrnambool West Reserve, Hopkins Point, Hopkins River, Hopkins View, Merri Vale, Russell's Creek, Spring Gardens) Woodford (Malones) Yangery (1865–1968)
Shire of Southern Grampians
Balmoral Bochara (1927–1957 Nigretta) Branxholme (Ardachy, Morven) Brit Brit (1923–1971) Buckley Swamp Bulart (1912–1946 Kyup, The Anchorage, Mooralla Estate, Parkwood) Byaduk (Neukirch) Byaduk North (1882–1969 see Byaduk) Carapook (1868–1968 Carrapook, Amblerton, Clifford) Cavendish (Mona Park) Cherrypool (1915–1963) Clover Flat (1923–1975 Muntham) Coleraine Coojar (1924–1953) Croxton East (1868–1959) Culla (1902–1952 Moree, Mooree) Dunkeld (Mount Sturgeon) Englefield (1924–1959) Gatum (1883–1971 Gatum Gatum, Parkside) Gazette (1954–1957) Glenisla (1902–1969 Glenisla Crossing, Hynes) Glenthompson (Strathmore, Yuppeekiar) Grampians (Big Cord, Strachans) Gringegalgona (1921–1975 The Gums) Gritjurk (1902–1954 Gritjurk North, Gritjurk South) Hamilton (Grangeburn, The Grange, Hamilton North, Pedrina Park) Hensley Park (1928–1962 Kanawalla) Hilgay (1924–1956) Karabeal (1872–1949) Konongwootong (1916–1957 Konongwootong North) Melville Forest (1923–1975) Mirranatwa (1882–1952) Mooralla (1891–1966 Lambruck) Morgiana (1953–1966) Mount Napier Moutajup (1872–1975) Muntham (1915–1923 see Clover Flat) Nareen (1870–1974 Wando Dale, Wando Heights) Penshurst (Penshurst South, Mount Rouse, Purdeet East) Pigeon Ponds (1911–1958) Rocklands (1902–1966 Woohlpooer, Rocklands Dam, Fergusons, Glendinning) Strathkellar (1909–1993) Tabor (Croxton East Railway Station) Tarrayoukyan (1878–1959) Tarrenlea (1922–1936 Winninburn) Tarrington (Hochkirch) Vasey (1923–1971) (Cadden Flat) Victoria Point Victoria Valley (1873–1968) Wannon (1861–1982) Warrayure Woodhouse Wootong Vale (1923–1964) Yatchaw (1915–1964) Yulecart (1908–1957)
Rural City of Ararat
Ararat (Canton Lead, Cathcart, Warra Yadin, Ararat East) Armstrong (Armstrong's) Ballyrogan (1875–1930 Challicum) Bayindeen (1892–1975) Bornes Hill Buangor (1863–1994 Buangor East) Cathcart (1859–1946 and see Ararat) Denicull Creek (1874–1931) Dobie (1862–1972 Dobies Bridge, Dobies, Jacksons Creek) Dunneworthy Elmhurst (1865–1993) Eversley (1858–1920) Glenlogie Lake Bolac (Mellier) Langi Logan (1877–1970 Ardara, Jackson's Creek, Wirri Wirri, Westgarth, Langi Logan South) Mafeking (1900–1958 Jimmy Creek) Maroona (1872–2000 Maroona West) Middle Creek (1881–1971) Mininera (1913– Mininera East) Mount Cole (1865–1975 Ben Nevis) Mount Cole Creek (1907–1962) Moyston (Barton, Campbell's Reef, Jallukar, Londonderry) Narrapumelap South Nerrin Nerrin (1913–1994) Norval (1870–1946 Opossum Gully) Pomonal (Pomona, Mona, Mount William) Rhymney (1875–1957 Rhymney Reef) Rocky Point (1920–1952) Rossbridge (1873–1962 Ross Bridge) Stavely (1909–1969) Streatham (Fiery Creek) Tatyoon (1867–1994 Tatyoon North, Tatyoon Railway, Kiora) Warrak (1879–1975) Westmere, Victoria (1913–1993) Wickliffe ( Berrambool, Narrapumelap) Willaura (Brennan, Talkadorno, Watgania, Buninjon, Lake Buninjon, Calvert, Yarram Park) Willaura North (1872–1883 Kalymna, Kia Ora)
Shire of Northern Grampians