Tarcutta
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| Coordinates: 35°16′37″S 147°44′13″E / 35.277056°S 147.736832°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 233 m (764 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 446 (2016 census) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10 | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+11 (AEDT) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2652 | ||||||||||||
| County | Wynyard | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 663.9 mm (26.14 in) | ||||||||||||
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Tarcutta is a town in south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town is 438 kilometres (272 mi) south-west of Sydney, 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of the Hume Highway, It was proclaimed as a village on 28 October 1890. As of 2016, the town had a population of 446.
It serves a local farming community relying for its prosperity mainly on sheep and cattle, and the interstate truckies who use the town as a halfway change-over point in the trade between the state capital cities of Sydney and Melbourne.