Dry Plain, New South Wales
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Dry Plain Location in New South Wales | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 36°04′57″S 148°56′02″E / 36.08250°S 148.93389°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| Region | Monaro | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 1,260 m (4,130 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 42 (2021 census)[3] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2630 | ||||||||||||
| County | Wallace | ||||||||||||
| Parish | Backalum | ||||||||||||
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Dry Plain is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia.[4][5] It is located in grasslands mainly to the east of the Snowy Mountains Highway, about 25 km southeast of Adaminaby and 40 km northwest of Cooma, at an altitude of approximately 1,260 metres (4,130 ft). It is about 160 km south of Canberra. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 42.[3]
It had a school from June 1925 to October 1927, generally described as a "half-time" school.[6]
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Dry Plain (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Dry Plain (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Dry Plain". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ^ "Dry Plain". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Dry Plain". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Dry Plain school in the school history database search". New South Wales Department of Education. Retrieved 3 April 2018.