Wee Waa


Australia's Cotton Capital, Wee Waa is a a dynamic rural community situated in the rich agricultural heartland of the Lower Namoi Valley.

Where is it?: Wee Waa is 41 km north west of Narrabri and 571 km north west of Sydney on the Kamilaroi Highway.

Located on the north-western slopes of the New England region, Wee Waa (pronounced Wee War) was the first town built on the Namoi River. The town is subject to regular floods and is protected by a levee bank. Each April the area transforms into snowy white profusion from horizon to horizon as the cotton harvest gets under way. There is also wheat-growing and grazing in the area.

Wee Waa is 42 km from the Newell Highway, and is a gateway to the far west centres of Walgett, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge opal fields and beyond.

The Wee Waa run was taken up by squatter George Hobler in 1837 and the settlement developed. It became an administrative centre in the late 1840s. A police station and court of petty sessions were established in 1847 and a post office opened two years later. It is the oldest established town in the area and is the birthplace of the commercial cotton industry in Australia.



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