Yanco
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | town |
| name | Yanco |
| state | nsw |
| image | Yanco welcome sign, hotel and Bills horse trough.jpg |
| caption | Yanco Hotel, welcome sign and a Bills horse trough |
| coordinates | |
| pop | |
| postcode | 2703 |
| dist1 | 3 |
| location1 | Leeton |
| lga | Leeton Shire |
| county | Cooper |
| parish | Yarangery |
| stategov | Murray |
| fedgov | Farrer |
| elevation | 164 |
| elevation_footnotes | {{cite web |
| url | http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_074037_All.shtml |
| title | Yanco Agricultural Institute Climate Statistics (1957-2025) |
| publisher | Bureau of Meteorology |
| access-date | January 23, 2026}} |
| maxtemp | 24.2 |
| maxtemp_footnotes | |
| mintemp | 11.4 |
| mintemp_footnotes | |
| rainfall | 423.9 |
| rainfall_footnotes | |
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| type = town | name = Yanco | state = nsw | image = Yanco welcome sign, hotel and Bills horse trough.jpg | caption = Yanco Hotel, welcome sign and a Bills horse trough | image_alt = | coordinates = | relief = | pushpin_label_position = | map_alt = | pop = | density = | density_footnotes = | established = | abolished = | gazetted = | postcode = 2703 | area = | area_footnotes = | timezone = | utc = | timezone-dst = | utc-dst = | dist1 = 3 | dir1 = | location1 = Leeton | lga = Leeton Shire | region = | county = Cooper | parish = Yarangery | stategov = Murray | fedgov = Farrer | url = | elevation= 164 | elevation_footnotes = {{cite web |url = http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_074037_All.shtml |title = Yanco Agricultural Institute Climate Statistics (1957-2025) |publisher = Bureau of Meteorology |access-date = January 23, 2026}} | maxtemp = 24.2 | maxtemp_footnotes = | mintemp = 11.4 | mintemp_footnotes = | rainfall = 423.9 | rainfall_footnotes = | near = | near-n = | near-ne = | near-e = | near-se = | near-s = | near-sw = | near-w = | near-nw = | established_footnotes = | footnotes = Yanco is a village in Leeton Shire in south western New South Wales, Australia. Yanco is a Wiradjuri aboriginal language word meaning the sound of running water. Yanco is located 3 km from Leeton along Irrigation Way. Yanco is home to the Powerhouse Museum, McCaughey Park, Murrumbidgee Rural Studies Centre and Yanco Agricultural High School. Murrumbidgee Irrigation builds the Roach’s Surge Reservoir near Yanco, holding up to 5 million tonnes of water.
Yanco North Post Office opened on 1 March 1888. It was renamed Yanko in 1892 and Yanco in 1928.
Geography
Climate
Yanco experiences a warm temperate semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSk/BSh) with hot summers, quite mild winters and relatively low precipitation year-round. The wettest recorded day was 4 March 2012 with 175.2 mm of rainfall. Extreme temperatures ranged from 46.1 C on 10 February 2017 to -3.0 C on 22 June 2007.
|location = Yanco Agricultural Institute () (164 m AMSL) (1975–2025) |metric first = Yes |single line = Yes |Jan record high C = 45.6 |Feb record high C = 46.1 |Mar record high C = 41.6 |Apr record high C = 37.4 |May record high C = 29.6 |Jun record high C = 24.0 |Jul record high C = 22.0 |Aug record high C = 30.0 |Sep record high C = 37.5 |Oct record high C = 38.6 |Nov record high C = 43.3 |Dec record high C = 43.3 |Jan high C = 33.9 |Feb high C = 32.6 |Mar high C = 29.2 |Apr high C = 24.3 |May high C = 19.1 |Jun high C = 15.1 |Jul high C = 14.6 |Aug high C = 16.5 |Sep high C = 20.6 |Oct high C = 24.8 |Nov high C = 28.7 |Dec high C = 31.3 |Jan low C = 18.8 |Feb low C = 18.2 |Mar low C = 15.6 |Apr low C = 11.7 |May low C = 7.7 |Jun low C = 5.6 |Jul low C = 4.8 |Aug low C = 5.4 |Sep low C = 7.6 |Oct low C = 10.6 |Nov low C = 14.2 |Dec low C = 16.3 |Jan record low C = 8.7 |Feb record low C = 8.2 |Mar record low C = 6.0 |Apr record low C = 2.8 |May record low C = 0.0 |Jun record low C = -3.0 |Jul record low C = -1.8 |Aug record low C = -2.8 |Sep record low C = -0.6 |Oct record low C = 1.0 |Nov record low C = 3.0 |Dec record low C = 5.9 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 32.9 |Feb precipitation mm = 30.6 |Mar precipitation mm = 36.3 |Apr precipitation mm = 32.0 |May precipitation mm = 37.9 |Jun precipitation mm = 36.6 |Jul precipitation mm = 35.3 |Aug precipitation mm = 37.4 |Sep precipitation mm = 38.0 |Oct precipitation mm = 39.1 |Nov precipitation mm = 35.1 |Dec precipitation mm = 32.7 |year precipitation mm = 423.9 |unit precipitation days = 0.2 mm |Jan precipitation days = 4.8 |Feb precipitation days = 4.0 |Mar precipitation days = 5.0 |Apr precipitation days = 5.5 |May precipitation days = 8.4 |Jun precipitation days = 11.7 |Jul precipitation days = 13.0 |Aug precipitation days = 11.7 |Sep precipitation days = 9.3 |Oct precipitation days = 7.5 |Nov precipitation days = 6.4 |Dec precipitation days = 5.7 |Jan afthumidity = 23 |Feb afthumidity = 30 |Mar afthumidity = 30 |Apr afthumidity = 37 |May afthumidity = 45 |Jun afthumidity = 61 |Jul afthumidity = 60 |Aug afthumidity = 52 |Sep afthumidity = 43 |Oct afthumidity = 33 |Nov afthumidity = 29 |Dec afthumidity = 27 |Jan dew point C = 6.3 |Feb dew point C = 9.0 |Mar dew point C = 7.2 |Apr dew point C = 6.4 |May dew point C = 5.7 |Jun dew point C = 6.6 |Jul dew point C = 5.6 |Aug dew point C = 4.6 |Sep dew point C = 5.1 |Oct dew point C = 3.8 |Nov dew point C = 4.8 |Dec dew point C = 5.1 |source = Bureau of Meteorology (1975–2025)
Demographics
At the Yanco had a population of 506. That had dropped to 432 at the .
Football
The town has a team in the Group 20 Rugby League competition with neighbouring village Wamoon, the Yanco-Wamoon Hawks. They are renowned for winning five successive titles from 1992 to 1996, a competition record. The club briefly merged with rivals Narrandera from 2012 to 2014 as the Bidgee Hurricanes, but the sides demerged ahead of the 2015 season. They play at the Yanco Sports Ground, a picturesque oval located across the railway and irrigation channel from the town centre.
The town had a defunct Australian Rules Football team, the Yanco Penguins, which played in the South West District Football League and Barellan & District Football League before folding in 1971. The Whitton Football Club of the Farrer Football League briefly changed its name to Whitton-Yanco in the early 1990s, however the Yanco part of the name was dropped when the club merged with Leeton in 1995.
Heritage listings
Yanco has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
- Yanco Weir
- 259 Euroley Road: Yanco Agricultural High School
References
References
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- "Climate classification maps: Köppen - all classes". [[Bureau of Meteorology]].
- "Yanco Agricultural Institute Climate (1957–2025)". [[Australian Community Media]].
- "2016 Yanco (L), Census All persons QuickStats".
- {{Census 2021 AUS
- {{cite NSW SHR. 5012085. Yanco Weir and site
- {{cite NSW SHR. 5062084. Yanco Agricultural High School
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