Cootamundra

The traditional owners of the area where present day Cootamundra exists are considered to be the Wiradjuri people, with the name "Cootamundra" probably deriving from the Wiradjuri language word guudhamang for "turtle".{{cite book |last=McNicol |first=Sally |author2=Hosking, Dianne |year=1994 |chapter=Wiradjuri |title=Macquarie Aboriginal Words |location=Sydney |publisher=Macquarie Library |pages=97}}

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Cootamundra was incorporated as a township on 9 August 1861, and the first settlers bought their lots in early 1862. Like many other towns in the Riverina, it was originally populated by those attracted by the gold rush of the 1860s but became a quiet yet prosperous agricultural community after the local deposits were exhausted. However, the potential sale of a recently disused mine near Adelong may have piqued the curiosity of would-be prospectors.{{Cite web|last=Horn|first=Emma|date=12 August 2019|title=Gold remains to be found throughout the Riverina|url=https://www.cootamundraherald.com.au/story/6323833/gold-remains-to-be-found-throughout-the-riverina/|access-date=5 May 2021|website=Cootamundra Herald|language=en-AU}}

It is one of the oldest towns in Australia.

The town's rugby league team, the Cootamundra Bulldogs, competed in the Maher Cup.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

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• 1837 – John Hurley and Patrick Fennell licensed to stock Coramundra Run{{cite book |author=Marie Scott |title=Chronicles of Cootamundry: The Early Years |year=2023 |isbn=9780645813609}}
• 1847 – Cootamundry Run, a large stock run, is the first colonist settlement in the area.
• 1860 – Plan of proposed village drawn up by surveyor Philip Francis Adams
• 1861 – The site of Cootamundry is published in the NSW Government Gazette
• 1862 – Gold mining commences at the nearby 'Muttama Reef' mine.

:::First town lots sold by auction at Gundagai

• 1864 – The first church (Anglican) and post office are established
• 1874 — Convent for the Presentation Order of nuns opened by (Catholic) Bishop of Goulburn
• 1875 – The first school in the district opens.
• 1877 – First issue of Cootamundra Herald published by Frederick Pinkstone and Thomas Campbell Brown

:::Cootamundra's railway connection opens on 1 November.

:::Public school opens on Cooper Street

• 1878 – Christ Church (Anglican) of England opens{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247733681 |title=Cootamundra Church of England |newspaper=The Burrangong Argus |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 July 1878 |access-date=10 August 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1879 – St Columba's (Catholic) church opens{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143905808 |title=Opening of St Columba Catholic Church |newspaper=Cootamundra Herald |volume=III |issue=45 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 December 1879 |access-date=10 August 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1881 – Post Office (the current building) opened
• 1882 – First Show held at Albert Park
• 1884 – Cootamundra is gazetted as a municipality and John Frederick Barnes elected first mayor.
• 1885 — Salt Clay Creek railway disaster - seven killed and dozens injured when culvert collapsed
• 1886 – Solomon Cohen establishes his store, corner of Wallendoon and Parker streets
• 1889 – First hospital opens on hill north east of the town, became Bimbadeen Aboriginal Girls' Home in 1911.
• 1893 – Dam on Hardy's Folly Creek constructed as town's water supply, but never satisfactory

:::Bank of NSW building (the current Westpac) constructed

:::Farmers' and Settlers' Association founded

• 1896 – Cootamundra Cycling Club. It is probably the oldest continual club in NSW, although as was the case with most clubs it went into recess during the war years.
• 1908 – Donald Bradman (later Sir Donald) is born in Cootamundra.
• 1911–1968 – Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls opens in former hospital.
• 1928 – Cootamundra is first town to receive Burrinjuck hydro-electric power.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article144129815 |title=Barrinjuck Electricity Supply |newspaper=Cootamundra Herald |location=New South Wales |date=11 September 1942 |access-date=3 July 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1933 – Water from Burrinjuck replaces supply from bores and Hardy's Folly Dam.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138876293 |title=The River Water |newspaper=Cootamundra Herald |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=20 February 1933 |access-date=3 July 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1942 – On 3 December, the corvette {{HMAS|Cootamundra}}, named for the town, is launched.
• 1951 – Cootamundra Jazz Band is formed by John Ansell.
• 1952 – Name of Cootamundry officially changed to Cootamundra.SMH 2 February 2004
• 1955 – The first Cootamundra Annual Classic cycling handicap race, one of the oldest open races in NSW.
• 1956 – Cootamundra's rugby league football club's Bill Marsh is first selected to play for the Australian national team.
• 1960 – Cootamundra Blues Australian rules football club is established.{{Cite web|url=http://websites.sportstg.com/club_info.cgi?c=1-1051-23208-0-0&sID=248249|title=History – Cootamundra Blues|website=SportsTG}}
• 1982 – In November 1982, aviation company Masling Industries is formed. This was restructured in June 1993 after the death of its owner.
• 1986 – Popular Australian singer/songwriter/bush poet John R Williamson released his song 'Cootamundra Wattle'.
• 1998 – Phase 1 of Cricket Captains' Walk declared open; all busts the work of Harden–Murrumburrah sculptor Carl Valerius
• 2000 – The first annual beach volleyball competition. Truckloads of sand are deposited in a main street for "Coota Beach" (punning reference to Kuta Beach in Bali, Indonesia).
• 2015 – Australian youth radio station Triple J featured the 'Cootamundra bonus weather rap'.

The first churches in Cootamundra were:

;Primitive Methodist

Rev. Smith was minister from around 1874, succeeded by J. Spalding, who was minister in 1877, and services were held on alternate Sunday afternoons.

;Wesleyan Methodist

The church, seating 100 persons, was opened on 17 December 1876. Rev. G. Thompson was minister in 1878{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143908620 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Cootamundra Herald |volume=I |issue=49 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 January 1878 |access-date=11 August 2020 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} and services were held regularly.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143905889 |title=Description of Cootamundra |newspaper=Cootamundra Herald |volume=III |issue=1 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=18 January 1879 |access-date=11 August 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1880 Rev. R. East was the only minister resident in the town.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143381670 |title=The Australian Handbook |newspaper=Cootamundra Herald |volume=IV |issue=17 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 May 1880 |access-date=11 August 2020 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}

;Anglican

Christ Church opened on 12 July 1878; the vicar W. Cocks shared with Murrumburrah. In January 1880 Rev. S. B. Holt left Gundagai to take up the position.

;Roman Catholic

Eighty confirmations were performed in 1875 in conjunction with a jubilee attended by Bishop Lanigan of Goulburn and Fathers Bermingham (Burrowa), Dunne and O'Dwyer (Gundagai), and Hanley (Goulburn).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101876343 |title=Cungegong, Cootamundra |newspaper=Wagga Wagga Advertiser |volume=VIII |issue=39 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=18 September 1875 |access-date=10 August 2020 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Mass was held fortnightly in the schoolroom by visiting priests from Gundagai.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110560718 |title=Cootamundra |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |volume=XXX |issue=1850 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=16 August 1879 |access-date=10 August 2020 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}

St Columba's church was consecrated on 30 November 1879.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127638543 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser |volume=XXI |issue=1504 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 November 1879 |access-date=10 August 2020 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The first resident pastor was Rev. Richard Butler in 1881.

During World War II, Cootamundra was the location of RAAF No.3 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot (IAFD), completed in 1942 and closed on 14 June 1944. It was located in an area of land near the intersection of Olympic Highway and Thompson Street. Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel for the RAAF and the US Army Air Forces at a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,000).{{Citation|location=Australia|work=Royal Australian Air Force; Historical Section |title=Logistics units |publication-date=1995 |publisher=AGPS Press |isbn=978-0-644-42798-2}}

It was also home to the No 1 Air Observers School, commemorated by a plaque at Cootamundra Airfield.

A plane from the No. 31 Beaufighter Squadron, RAAF, from Wagga Wagga, crashed nearby on 21 September 1942 during training exercises, resulting in the death of Flt/Sgt J. E. Jenkins and Sgt V. Sutherst. A memorial alongside the main road to Young, dedicated on 28 April 1990,{{cite web|url=https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/military/display/97036-flight-sergeant-j.-jenkins-and-sergeant-v.-sutherst |title=Flight Sergeant J. Jenkins & Sergeant V. Sutherst |publisher=Monuments Australia |access-date=5 February 2023}} is regularly tended. See Gallery below.

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Cootamundra has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

• Cootamundra-Griffith railway: Cootamundra West railway station{{cite NSW SHR|5011977|Cootamundra West Railway Station group|hr=01119|fn=H03/00176/1|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• Main Southern railway: Cootamundra railway station{{cite NSW SHR|5011976|Cootamundra Railway Station and yard group|hr=01118|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 39 Rinkin Street: Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls{{cite NSW SHR|5061346|Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls' Training Home|hr=01873|fn=11/10086|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 219 Sutton Street: Cootamundra World War II Fuel Depot{{cite NSW SHR|5062423|Cootamundra World War II Fuel Depot Site (former No.3 AIFD)|hr=01943|fn=EF14/23057|access-date=18 February 2020}}

Cootamundra is located in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, within the Riverina region.

It is within the local government area of Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council. Abb McAlister was elected mayor of the newly-formed Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council on 21 September 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cgrc.nsw.gov.au/about-council/councillors/cr-abb-mcalister/|title=Mayor – Cr Abb McAlister | Cootamundra Gundagai Regional Council|website=www.cgrc.nsw.gov.au}}

The town is known as the birthplace of the great cricketer Sir Donald Bradman. Although he never lived in the town and his parents left Yeo Yeo (some 18{{nbsp}}km from Cootamundra) when he was two, the town celebrates this connection with the Sir Donald Bradman Birthplace Museum, the home where "The Don" was born, a fully restored visitors' site featuring cricketing memorabilia and artefacts.{{cite web|url=http://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/country-nsw/wagga-wagga-area/cootamundra|title=Cootamundra|publisher=VisitNSW.com|access-date=17 June 2013}}

The Coota Ex-Services Club is an ex-servicemen's club that is open to the public as a restaurant.{{cite web | title=The Coota Ex-Services Club | website=The Coota Ex-Services Club - Cootamundra | url=https://www.cootaclub.com.au/ | access-date=11 April 2022}}

Hemet, California, is a sister city.{{Cite web|url=https://asiamattersforamerica.org/asia/data/sister-partnerships|title=Sister Partnerships by US State |website=Asia Matters for America}}

File:Coota Captains Walk.jpg]]

In 1998 a collection of 14 captains of the Australia International Test XI cricket team was unveiled in Jubilee Park, adjacent the Caravan Park. Specially commissioned, they were all the work of Harden-Murrumburrah sculptor Carl Valerius.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

In 2008 a further 30 busts were installed on either side of a looping path, making a full set of Australian Test cricket captains, with three more added in 2020 to bring the list up to date. These are by various artists from the Tom Bass sculpture studio. The all-weather path, which starts and ends at Wallendoon Street is family, jogger, and wheelchair friendly, and approximately 250 metres long.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

A life-sized bronze statue of Bradman in action, also by Valerius, is nearby, as is a newly-installed barbecue and playground. Jubilee Park, the site of these attractions, is on land reclaimed from the original stock dam, memorialised by a plaque on the Morgan Arch on Wallendoon Street.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

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The large effigy of a fairytale giant gesturing towards to his crotch was created by an unknown artist around 1975 in fibreglass as a mascot for "The Giant Supermarket" on the corner of Cooper and Wallendoon streets.

:This location was in 1882 the site of Kibby's "Trade Palace" department store;{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143385529 |title=Another New Building |newspaper=The Cootamundra Herald |volume=VI |issue=49 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=14 June 1882 |access-date=30 June 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} and taken over by Solomon Cohen (c. 1848–1922) in 1886.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143440055 |title=Trade Palace |newspaper=Cootamundra Herald |volume=X |issue=10 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 February 1886 |access-date=30 June 2020 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1943 it became "Cohen's Corner",{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article144402052 |title=Local & General |newspaper=Cootamundra Herald |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 November 1943 |access-date=30 June 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} a name which endures to this day. "Hammond and Hanlon" were tenants in 1962 and "The Giant" in 1975, subsequently "U-Mark-it", "Half-case Warehouse", "Payless", and "Food World". It next became Mark Ward's hardware store, then "GV Bargains".

When the statue was taken down it was purchased by Allan and Phuong Jenkins, who ran a florist shop nearby. In 1985 Allan participated in a Round-Australia marathon run by Rotary International and the Australian Cancer Society as a fundraiser, and his support vehicle was surmounted by "The Giant". In 2014 the Jenkins couple donated the statue to the Cootamundra Heritage Centre.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

Local artist Jim Newman did its original paintwork back in 1975, and his brother Robert Newman was responsible for its restoration in 2015.From plaque accompanying the statue The statue is located alongside the Heritage Centre on Hovell Street, near the railway station.

The Giant,{{Cite web |date=2022-01-18 |title=The Giant, Cootamundra, NSW - Land of the Bigs |url=https://landofthebigs.com/the-giant-cootamundra-nsw/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |language=en-AU}} along with Don Bradman's Bat and Stumps in Bradman Oval,{{Cite web |date=2022-01-18 |title=Bradman’s Bat, Cootamundra, NSW - Land of the Bigs |url=https://landofthebigs.com/bradmans-bat-cootamundra-nsw/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |language=en-AU}} are considered to be two of Australia's many Big Things.

According to the 2016 Australian census, there were 6,782 people in Cootamundra. Of these:{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC11053|name=Cootamundra (State Suburb)|accessdate=4 February 2018|quick=on}}

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 5.6% of the population.
• 85.6% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was England at 2.1%.
• 91.6% of people spoke only English at home.
• The most common responses for religion were Catholic 30.8%, Anglican 28.4% and No Religion 16.4%.

{{Historical populations

|type= Australia

|1921|1748

|1933|4683

|1947|5259

|1954|5760

|1961|5939

|1966|6219

|1971|6530

|1976|6384

|1981|6540

|1986|6314

|1991|6386

|1996|5879

|2001|5486

|2006|5566

|2011|5579

|2016|5669

|2021|5732

|source=Australian Bureau of Statistics data.{{cite web |title=Statistics by Catalogue Number |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/ViewContent?readform&view=ProductsbyCatalogue&Action=Expand&Num=2.2 |access-date=8 January 2024}}{{cite web |title=Search Census data |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/search-by-area |access-date=8 January 2024}}

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Cootamundra railway station is located on the Main Southern railway line, with passengers served in each direction by twice daily NSW TrainLink XPT railway services between Sydney and Melbourne, and the twice weekly Xplorer railway services to Griffith. Interstate freight trains also pass through the town.

Regional Rail Logistics previously operated a containerised freight service from Junee to Sydney stopping in the town.

{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/new-rail-service-a-boost-for-riverina/1383756.aspx|title=New rail service a boost for Riverina|work=The Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga)|date=10 December 2008|publisher=dailyadvertiser.com.au|access-date=8 January 2009}}

{{Adjacent stations

|system1=NSW TrainLink

|line2=Southern|left2=Junee|right2=Harden|note-mid2=Griffith Xplorer
Melbourne XPT|to-left2=Griffith or Melbourne

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Cootamundra acts as a hub for coach services, run by Transport for NSW, to other regional centres with departures and arrivals timed to connect with certain New South Wales XPT train arrivals. The exception is Services 704/703 (coloured row), provided for those who have business in Canberra civic, the major hospitals, or to connect with the Canberra–Sydney rail service ([https://traintimes.net.au/files/MainInterstateTrainServices.pdf three trains per day both directions]).

Seats are allocated and must be booked ahead.{{Cite New South Wales transport timetables|Southern Region}} must be consulted for conditions of travel and coach stop locations. On-line booking and more information[https://transportnsw.info/regional Regional travel information] Transport for NSW

Cootamundra Airport, is one of the oldest country airports outside of Mascot to be continually licensed.

From 1991 to 2002 local business Country Connection Airlines offered regional flights from Cootamundra to Sydney, as well as to many other regional locations such as West Wyalong, Cowra, Forbes and Young.

Cootamundra has a long and proud sporting history, with the region most notably producing Sir Donald Bradman, the greatest test cricketer ever.

Today, the most popular sport in Cootamundra is rugby league. The local team, the Cootamundra Bulldogs, compete in the George Tooke Shield competition, which is part of the broader Canberra Rugby League. The club formerly competed in the Group 9 Rugby League competition, in which they were among the most successful clubs, winning nine titles, and their junior sides remain in this league. The club famously produced Les Boyd, whom the club's home ground is named after, Eric Weissel, and Paul Field, a local player who was picked to represent New South Wales in the 1983 State of Origin series, one of only three players to ever be selected for the side from a Country Rugby League club.

Cootamundra also has an Australian rules football side, nicknamed the Blues, who play in the AFL Canberra lower divisions, and a rugby union team, the Cootamundra Tri-Colours, in the Central West Rugby Union Division 3 South. The region also has a strong local cricket competition.

• Paul Beath (born 1968) – represented the Canberra Raiders and Manly Sea Eagles in the NRL
• Les Boyd (born 17 November 1956) – grew up representing the Cootamundra Bulldogs in the Group 9 Rugby League, became a professional Rugby League Player, representing Australia and NSW in the State of Origin.
• Thomas Bradley (born 1990) – Australian dancer for Sydney Dance Company and Australian Dance Theatre
• Sir Donald Bradman {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}} (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001) – Australian international cricketer, born in Cootamundra{{cite web|url=http://www.bradman.org.au/html/s02_article/article_view.asp?id=112&nav_cat_id=131&nav_top_id=56|title=Donald George Bradman|work=Bradman Museum|access-date=23 August 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070901163342/http://www.bradman.org.au/html/s02_article/article_view.asp?id=112&nav_cat_id=131&nav_top_id=56| archive-date = 1 September 2007}}
• Bob Holder – rodeo champion{{cite web|date=19 August 2019|title=Meet Bob Holder, the rodeo rider still going strong at 88 years old|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-19/meet-bill-holder,-the-rodeo-rider-still-going/11429716?section=sport|access-date=22 August 2019|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}(transcript of TV interview with Holder by Dominique Schwartz) for The 7.30 Report. described as the 'world's oldest cowboy.'{{Cite news |date=2023-11-06 |title=How 92yo Bob Holder hangs on to the title of 'world's oldest competitive cowboy' |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-07/worlds-oldest-cowboy-bob-holder-competing-at-92/103068840 |access-date=2023-11-07}}
• Philip Lowe (born 1961) – Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, moved to Cootamundra aged 5.
• Hayley Manwaring (born 1991) – Guitarist in Australian rock band Moaning Lisa (band)
• Billy Murdoch (1854–1911) – batsman and Test cricket captain, was a solicitor in private life, and had a practice in Cootamundra in the 1880s.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88530830 |title=The Marriage of Miss Watson |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |volume=XXXI |issue=9,172 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=10 December 1884 |access-date=5 February 2023 |page=1 (Supplement) |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Hubert Leslie Primrose (1880–1942) – solicitor and politician{{Cite web|url = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/primrose-hubert-leslie-8117|title = Primrose, Hubert Leslie|access-date = 2015-03-30|website = Australian dictionary of biography}}
• Isaac Smith (30 December 1988) – AFL footballer
• Ethelbert Ambrook Southee (1890–1968) – college principal{{cite web|title=Southee, Ethelbert Ambrook (1890–1968)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/southee-ethelbert-ambrook-11736|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|access-date=2015-03-30}}
• Eric Weissel (1903–1972) – Professional Rugby League Player

Cootamundra has hot, dry summers interspersed with severe thunderstorms and the odd cold front, and cool, mostly cloudy winters with many rain days. Snow can occur during the winter months, with the most recent snowfall having occurred in August 2019. Under the Köppen climate classification scheme, the town has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa), receiving enough precipitation to avoid the cold semi-arid (BSk) climate classification.

{{Weather box

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|location = Cootamundra Airport (1995–2022); 335 m AMSL; 34.63° S, 148.04° E

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan record high C= 45.0

|Feb record high C= 43.0

|Mar record high C= 39.7

|Apr record high C= 33.5

|May record high C= 27.0

|Jun record high C= 22.0

|Jul record high C= 20.5

|Aug record high C= 24.8

|Sep record high C= 30.2

|Oct record high C= 34.9

|Nov record high C= 41.0

|Dec record high C= 42.2

|Jan high C= 32.1

|Feb high C= 30.4

|Mar high C= 27.2

|Apr high C= 22.7

|May high C= 17.5

|Jun high C= 13.9

|Jul high C= 13.0

|Aug high C= 14.6

|Sep high C= 18.3

|Oct high C= 22.4

|Nov high C= 26.1

|Dec high C= 29.3

|Jan low C= 16.1

|Feb low C= 15.5

|Mar low C= 12.4

|Apr low C= 7.5

|May low C= 3.5

|Jun low C= 2.2

|Jul low C= 1.2

|Aug low C= 1.5

|Sep low C= 3.5

|Oct low C= 6.3

|Nov low C= 10.4

|Dec low C= 13.0

|Jan record low C= 2.0

|Feb record low C= 2.9

|Mar record low C= 0.9

|Apr record low C= -4.0

|May record low C= -6.5

|Jun record low C= -7.3

|Jul record low C= -7.8

|Aug record low C= -7.0

|Sep record low C= -6.0

|Oct record low C= -3.5

|Nov record low C= -1.4

|Dec record low C= 2.1

|Jan precipitation mm= 49.3

|Feb precipitation mm= 52.3

|Mar precipitation mm= 53.9

|Apr precipitation mm= 35.3

|May precipitation mm= 38.0

|Jun precipitation mm= 60.7

|Jul precipitation mm= 58.5

|Aug precipitation mm= 58.4

|Sep precipitation mm= 52.9

|Oct precipitation mm= 48.6

|Nov precipitation mm= 64.6

|Dec precipitation mm= 52.7

|year precipitation mm = 614.3

|Jan precipitation days= 6.8

|Feb precipitation days= 5.4

|Mar precipitation days= 6.5

|Apr precipitation days= 5.1

|May precipitation days= 7.6

|Jun precipitation days= 10.8

|Jul precipitation days= 12.9

|Aug precipitation days= 11.8

|Sep precipitation days= 9.0

|Oct precipitation days= 8.5

|Nov precipitation days= 8.4

|Dec precipitation days= 6.7

|unit precipitation days = 0.2 mm

|Jan afthumidity = 33

|Feb afthumidity = 38

|Mar afthumidity = 38

|Apr afthumidity = 43

|May afthumidity = 53

|Jun afthumidity = 66

|Jul afthumidity = 65

|Aug afthumidity = 61

|Sep afthumidity = 53

|Oct afthumidity = 46

|Nov afthumidity = 39

|Dec afthumidity = 36

|humidity colour = green

|source 1= Bureau of Meteorology{{cite web |url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_073142_All.shtml |title= Cootamundra, NSW Climate (1995-2022) |publisher= Australian Bureau of Meteorology |access-date=1 March 2023 }}

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• In The Two Ronnies' sketch "The Australians", Cootamundra is the location of their travel agency.{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fDrCEDBm-U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/6fDrCEDBm-U |archive-date=13 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=The Two Ronnies The Australians|last=The Two Ronnies|language=en|type=Web Video|publisher=YouTube|time-caption=3:48|year=2014|access-date=11 July 2020}}{{cbignore}}
• Leonard Hubbard recorded the song "Cootamundra" in 1924.National Film and Sound Archive: [http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/songs-about-towns-and-places/#wodonga Does your town have its own song?]
• The Cootamundra Jazz Band (1951–1960) was one of Australia's foremost Dixieland groups
• John Williamson recorded the song "Cootamundra Wattle" in 1986.{{Cite web|url=http://johnwilliamson.com.au/lyrics/cootamundra-wattle/|title=Cootamundra Wattle|publisher=John Williamson|access-date=21 November 2018}}
• Cootamundra was long described as the town of "railway engines, wide streets and white ways" (illuminated roads){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article265241071 |title=Group 9 Leaders to Meet |newspaper=The Gundagai Independent |volume=53 |issue=82 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=5 July 1951 |access-date=16 November 2023 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}

File:Coota town centre 1.jpg|Cootamundra looking NE; railway station at centre

File:Coota town centre 2.jpg|Cootamundra looking SW, railway station at top

File:Coota Airport plaques.jpg|Plaques at Cootamundra Aerodrome

File:Jenkin Sutherst memorial 2.jpg|Roadside memorial

File:Jenkin Sutherst memorial.jpg|Roadside plaque

File:Coota Beach 2023.jpg|Coota Beach Volleyball

File:Coota Beach 2024.jpg|Murray St. transformed

File:Coota Services Club green.jpg|Services Club bowling green

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• [https://www.cgrc.nsw.gov.au Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council]
• [http://www.cootamundra.com/ Cootamundra – New Country Living]
• [https://map.chronicle.rip/Cootamundra_Cemetery Cootamundra Cemetery deceased records and online map] at Chronicle Cemetery Map

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