Dandaloo

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Dandaloo | state = nsw | image = Bogan River - Sign.jpg | caption = Bogan River on the Dandaloo-Trangie Road, Dandaloo. | image_alt = | relief = | coordinates = {{coord|32|21|S|147|30|E|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = right | map_alt = | pop = 37 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}} | pop_footnotes = <ref name="census16">{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC11197 |name=Dandaloo |accessdate=20 March 2018 |quick=on}}</ref> | poprank = | density = | density_footnotes = | established = | established_footnotes = | abolished = | gazetted = | postcode = 2873 | elevation = | elevation_footnotes = | area = | area_footnotes = | timezone = | utc = | timezone-dst = | utc-dst = | dist1 = | dir1 = | location1 = | lga = [[Narromine Shire]] | seat = | region = | county = | division = | stategov = [[Electoral district of Barwon|Barwon]] | fedgov = [[Division of Parkes|Parkes]] | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | visitation_footnotes = | managing_authorities = | url = | maxtemp = | maxtemp_footnotes = | mintemp = | mintemp_footnotes = | rainfall = | rainfall_footnotes = | near-n = | near-ne = | near-e = | near-se = | near-s = | near-sw = | near-w = | near-nw = | near = | footnotes = }} '''Dandaloo''' is a rural [[locality (settlement)|locality]] in New South Wales,<ref>◾Atchison, J F. “The Counties of New South Wales.” The Australian Surveyor, vol. 30, no. 1, Mar. 1980, pp. 39–42.</ref><ref>Robert McLean, The New atlas of Australia : the complete work containing over one hundred maps and full descriptive geography of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, together with numerous illustrations and copious indices (Sydney :J. Sands, [1886) Map 14.</ref> approximately 370 km north west from [[Sydney]], about 15 km north east of [[Albert, New South Wales|Albert]] and about 40 km south west of [[Trangie]]. It is within the [[Narromine Shire|Narromine Council area]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ozdirectory.info/?s=dandaloo&searchtype=town |title=Oz Directory Online |access-date=29 December 2012 |archive-date=8 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108065354/http://ozdirectory.info/?s=dandaloo&searchtype=town |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.oktravel.com.au/au/nsw/narromine/dandaloo/ OK travel]</ref>

The locality was named by local landowner Florent Martel after a town in [[France]],<ref>{{NSW GNR|id = JPYbjzUlKW|title = Dandaloo|accessdate = 4 August 2013}}</ref> and is the subject of the [[Banjo Paterson]] poem "An Idyll of Dandaloo".<ref>[http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo/an-idyll-of-dandaloo-0001009 An Idyll of Dandaloo]</ref>

[[File:Narromine - Distance with Stormclouds.jpg|thumb|left|Dandaloo Rd]]During the [[History of Australia (1788–1850)|colonial era]] a ''village of Dandaloo'' was proposed where the [[Trangie]]-Melrose Road crosses the [[Bogan River]]. Although [[land subdivision|subdivision]] commenced, the proposal was revoked in June 1895 and the town site remains largely [[paddocks]] to this day, although a few houses, a church graveyard and disused [[post office]] [[building]] are scattered across the area.

During the [[Second World War]], the [[Royal Australian Air Force]] built a satellite airfield seventeen kilometres west-north-west of its Elementary Flying Training School at [[RAAF Station Narromine]]. Known as RAAF Dandaloo, the former comprised a single 5,000' east-west gravel runway (and eight hideouts) with no other permanent above-ground structures. The site (32°10'60.00"S 148° 4'30.00"E) has since reverted to cultivation.

In 2006 Dandaloo had around 365 people, with the major industry being [[agriculture]], [[forestry]] & fishing.<ref>[http://www.oktravel.com.au/au/nsw/narromine/dandaloo/ Dandaloo] at OK Travel.com.</ref>

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[[Category:Localities in New South Wales]] [[Category:Ghost towns in New South Wales]]