Type: | town |
Crooked Corner | |
State: | nsw |
Coordinates: | -34.2333°N 167°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Lga: | Upper Lachlan Shire |
County: | Georgiana |
Parish: | Gillindich |
Region: | Southern Tablelands |
Postcode: | 2583 |
Timezone: | AEST |
Utc: | +10 |
Timezone-Dst: | AEDT |
Utc-Dst: | +11 |
Pop: | 61 |
Elevation: | 808 |
Stategov: | Goulburn |
Fedgov: | Hume |
Dist1: | 15.47 |
Dir1: | N |
Location1: | Binda |
Dist2: | 18.32 |
Dir2: | E |
Dist3: | 34 |
Dir3: | N |
Location3: | Crookwell |
Dist4: | 120 |
Dir4: | S |
Location4: | Bathurst |
Dist5: | 271 |
Dir5: | W |
Location5: | Sydney |
Near-N: | Tuena |
Near-Ne: | Peelwood |
Near-E: | Limerick |
Near-Se: | Binda |
Near-S: | Binda |
Near-Sw: | Narrawa |
Near-W: | Taylors Flat |
Near-Nw: | Bigga |
Crooked Corner is a locality on the road from Bigga, New South Wales to Binda, New South Wales, which was once a town. At the, it had a population of 61.
Alluvial gold was found there, in 1861,[1] and reef gold, in 1871.[2] In the late 1880s another reef was found to the east of the old alluvial workings, and the Palmer Gold and Silver Mining Company set up a battery there in 1888.[3]
The Five Mile Tree public school operated there from 1892 to 2009.[4]