Coordinates: 34°14′S 149°18′E / 34.233°S 149.300°E / -34.233; 149.300

Crooked Corner, New South Wales

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Crooked Corner
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CountryAustralia
StateNew South Wales
RegionSouthern Tablelands
LGA
Location
Government
 • State electorate
 • Federal division
Elevation
808 m (2,651 ft)
Population
 • Total61 (2016 census)[1]
Time zoneUTC+10 (AEST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+11 (AEDT)
Postcode
2583
CountyGeorgiana
ParishGillindich
Localities around Crooked Corner
Bigga Tuena Peelwood
Taylors Flat Crooked Corner Limerick
Narrawa Binda Binda

Crooked Corner is a locality on the road from Bigga, New South Wales to Binda, New South Wales, which was once a town.[2] At the 2016 census, it had a population of 61.[1]

Alluvial gold was found there, in 1861,[3] and reef gold, in 1871.[4] 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.[5]

The Five Mile Tree public school operated there from 1892 to 2009.[6]

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