{{Use Australian English|date=April 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Tarilta | state = vic | image = | lga = Shire of Mount Alexander | lga2 = Shire of Hepburn | use_lga_map = yes | postcode = 3451<ref>{{Cite web |title=3451 Postcode - Australia Post |url=https://auspost.com.au/postcode/3451 |access-date=15 April 2025|website=Australia Post}}</ref> | est = | pop = 26 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}} | pop_footnotes = <ref name="abs">{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL22449|name=Tarilta|accessdate=15 April 2025|quick=on}}</ref> | elevation= | coordinates = {{coord|37|10|39|S|144|11|28|E|display=inline,title}} | maxtemp = | mintemp = | rainfall = | stategov = Macedon<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interactive Map |url=https://maps.vec.vic.gov.au/|access-date=15 April 2025 |website=maps.vec.vic.gov.au}}</ref> | fedgov = Bendigo | fedgov2 = Ballarat | dist1 = | dir1 = | location1= | dist2 = | dir2 = | location2= | dist3 = | dir3 = | location3= }} '''Tarilta''' is a locality in the Shire of Hepburn and the Shire of Mount Alexander, Victoria, Australia. At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Tarilta had a population of 26.<ref name="abs"/>
== History == Tarilta, originally known as Kangaroo Flat, emerged following the discovery of gold near the junction of Kangaroo Creek and the Loddon River in 1853.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Tarilta {{!}} Victorian Places |url=https://www.victorianplaces.com.au/tarilta |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.victorianplaces.com.au}}</ref> A school was established in 1860 within a Wesleyan chapel, and the township was officially surveyed and named Tarilta in 1864, a name believed to derive from a Djadjawurrung word meaning "kangaroo."<ref name=":0" /> By 1865, Bailliere’s Victorian Gazetteer described Tarilta as a gold-mining town featuring both alluvial and quartz operations, with three quartz-crushing mills, three horse-puddling machines, and two hotels. Tarilta’s elevated location was accessible only by horse-drawn dray or horseback, including via the Cobb and Co mail service.<ref name=":0" />
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{{Towns in Hepburn Shire}} {{Towns in Mount Alexander Shire}}
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Category:Towns in Victoria (state)
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