Quambatook

{{for|the 2008 musical|Quambatook (musical)}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Quambatook | state = vic | image = Quambatook Guthrie Street 001.JPG | caption = Guthrie St, the main street of Quambatook | image_alt = | use_lga_map = yes | relief = | coordinates = {{coord|35|51|0|S|143|32|0|E|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_label_position = | map_alt = | pop = 229 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}} | pop_footnotes = <ref name="ABS2021" /> | poprank = | density = | density_footnotes = | established = | established_footnotes = | abolished = | gazetted = | postcode = 3540 | elevation = | elevation_footnotes = | area = | area_footnotes = | timezone = | utc = | timezone-dst = | utc-dst = | dist1 = 302 | dir1 = NW | location1 = Melbourne | dist2 = 162 | dir2 = NW | location2 = Bendigo | dist3 = 60 | dir3 = S | location3 = Swan Hill | lga = Shire of Gannawarra | region = | county = | stategov = Murray Plains | fedgov = Mallee | 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 = }} '''Quambatook''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|w|ɒ|m|b|ə|t|ʊ|k}} is a town in the Shire of Gannawarra, Victoria, Australia, {{convert|302|km|mi}} from the state capital, Melbourne. Quambatook is located on the Avoca River. At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Quambatook had a population of 229, a decline from 249 at the {{CensusAU|2016}}.<ref name="ABS2016">{{cite web |title=2016 Census QuickStats Quambatook |url=http://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC22119 |website=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=21 February 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306072527/http://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC22119 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=ABS2021>{{Census 2021 AUS | id = SAL22131| name = Quambatook (State Suburb) | quick = on}}</ref>

== History== Quambatook was settled following the end of the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s. Resumption of large squatter's land holdings for closer settlement in the 1870s led to Quambatook becoming one of Victoria's leading wheat and sheep producing areas.<ref name="Shire">{{cite web | url = http://www.gannawarra.vic.gov.au/Page/page.asp?Page_Id=42&h=0 | title = Towns in Gannawarra | publisher = Gannawarra Shire Council | access-date = 2007-06-04 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070614160750/http://www.gannawarra.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=42&h=0 | archive-date = 2007-06-14 }}</ref> Quambatook Post Office opened on 1 September 1879.<ref name = "a">{{Cite web | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Quambatook* | access-date = 24 March 2021}}</ref>

Quambatook has been recognised as the tractor pulling capital of Australia with an annual competition, the Australian Tractor Pulling Championships, held at Easter since 1976.<ref name="Travelmate">{{cite web | url = http://www.travelmate.com.au/Places/Places.asp?TownName=Quambatook_%5C_VIC | title = Quambatook Victoria | publisher = Travelmate | access-date = 21 June 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110822095813/http://travelmate.com.au/Places/Places.asp?TownName=Quambatook%5F%5C%5FVIC | archive-date = 22 August 2011}}</ref> In fact, the town's motto is 'Land of wheat and wool, home of the tractor pull'.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} The town is where country music performer John Williamson grew up. Williamson has written a musical named for the town.<ref name="Shire"/><ref name="Musical">{{cite web | url = http://www.johnwilliamson.com.au/Default2.htm | title = QUAMBATOOK is a family musical. | publisher = johnwilliamson.com.au | access-date = 21 June 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071104071311/https://johnwilliamson.com.au/Default2.htm | archive-date = 4 November 2007}}</ref>

Golfers play at the course of the Quambatook Golf Club on Boort Road.<ref name = "golf">{{Cite web | author= Golf Select | title = Quambatook | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=1069 | access-date = 2009-05-11}}</ref> The primary school closed in 2017 after no applications to teach the six remaining students were received.<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4500305/quamby-applications-all-deemed-not-suitable/ | title = Quambatook Group School to close despite more than 50 expressions of interest in principal job | work = Bendigo Advertiser | access-date = 21 June 2025 | url-access = subscription | author = Kearney, Mark | date = 2 March 2017}}</ref>

After over a century, Quambatook Football Club was dissolved following the 2022 season of the Golden Rivers Football League.<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-01/quambatook-football-netball-club-dissolve-2022-mallee-town/101026174 | title = Quambatook will lose its football-netball clubs this year. Here's how the town plans to survive | work = ABC News | date = 1 May 2022 | author = Darling, Alexander | access-date = 21 June 2025}}</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery> File:Quambatook War Memorial 002.JPG|War memorial File:Quambatook Post Office 002.JPG|Post office File:Quambatook Welcome Sign.JPG|Guthrie St File:Quambatook Avoca River 002.JPG|Avoca River and River St File:Quambatook Store.JPG|General store </gallery>

==See also== * Quambatook (musical)

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Category:Towns in Victoria (state)