Mukinbudin, Western Australia 4.19

Mukinbudin is a town in the North Eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 293km east of Perth and 80km north of Merredin near Lake Campion. It is the main town in the Shire of Mukinbudin. At the 2006 census, Mukinbudin had a population of 281.The present Shire of Mukinbudin was settled by pastoralists who in the 1870s took up large leases in excess of 20000acre to run sheep and by sandalwood cutters and miners en route to the goldfields. In 1910 the first of the farmers arrived to commence wheat growing on their 1000acre block and it was some time before they added stock to what had been entirely a wheat growing enterprise. An extension of the Mount Marshall railway line to Mukinbudin and Lake Brown was approved in 1922 and opened in October 1923. The townsite was gazetted in 1922.In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding.The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling.