Booyong, New South Wales

Booyong New South Wales
Booyong
Coordinates	28°44′54″S153°27′04″E / 28.74833°S 153.45111°E / -28.74833; 153.45111
Population	84 (SAL 2021) [1]
Postcode(s)	2480
LGA(s)	Byron Shire Lismore
County	Rous
Parish	Teven
State electorate(s)	Lismore
Federal division(s)	Richmond, with a small section in Page
Suburbs around Booyong: Clunes Nashua Eltham Booyong Pearces Creek

Booyong is a locality within the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales and it is partially in Byron Shire and partially in the City of Lismore. ^[2]

For census purposes the locality is included in the village of Clunes.

It is the location of the Booyong Flora Reserve, now part of the Andrew Johnston Big Scrub Nature Reserve, ^[3] which is one of the few known locations of the endangered plant Isoglossa eranthemoides. ^{[3] [4]}

The village is located on the former Murwillumbah railway line and a station was opened the in 1894 and closed in 1974. ^[5] The track work, bridges and platform for the former Booyong railway station remains. There are no buildings left in the station precinct.

History

It is named using the Bundjalung language word for a species of ironwood tree which is also commonly known as the Booyong. ^{[2] [6] [7]}

In 2010, the biggest water gum in the Southern Hemisphere, located within the Booyong Flora Reserve, was added to the National Register of Big Trees.

Gallery

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  Booyong railway station and the Booyong reserve tennis courts.

External links

• ""Google Maps: Booyong"" . Retrieved 4 November 2016.

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Booyong (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
2. "Booyong entry". Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
3. "Isoglossa eranthemoides — Isoglossa". Species Profile and Threats Database. Australian Department of Environment. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
4. "PlantNET - NSW Flora Online". Plant Net. Archived from the original on 6 September 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
5. "Booyong Station". www.nswrail.net. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
6. Rankin, T (1898). "Aboriginal Place Names and Other Words, with their Meanings, Peculiar to the Richmond and Tweed River Districts". Science of man and journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia. Retrieved 5 September 2025– via Trove.
7. "Booyong (Locality)". NSW Place and Road Naming Proposals System. Retrieved 5 September 2025.