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Nangeenan, Western Australia

locality in Western Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ28428478 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nangeenan is a small town west of Merredin on the Great Eastern Highway, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. A railway siding was opened by the Western Australian Government Railways on the Eastern railway line in 1898. People moved into the town shortly after.

Nangeenan was officially recognised as a town in 1905.

It has a local hall which was built in 1912. It has been in use since around the time of World War I. During the same era, Nangeenan was the site of a "state farm", a term used at the time for a research station of the Department of Agriculture.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nangeenan, Western Australia” as locality in Western Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1905, 1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Nangeenan, Western and Australia can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as locality in Western Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28428478. Authority coordinates are -31.516, 118.166. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1905 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nangeenan, Western Australia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.