Dry Plain, New South Wales

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox Australian place | type = town

| name = Dry Plain

| state = nsw

| image = Dry Plain, New South Wales.jpg

| caption =

| coordinates = {{coord|36|04|57|S|148|56|02|E|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_label_position = right

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in New South Wales

| lga = Snowy Monaro Regional Council

| county = Wallace

| parish = Backalum

| region = Monaro

| postcode = 2630

| pop = 42

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}

| pop_footnotes = {{Census 2021 AUS | id =SAL11298 | name = Dry Plain| quick = on | accessdate = 24 April 2025}}

| stategov = Monaro

| fedgov = Eden-Monaro

| elevation = 1260

| dist1 = 24

| dir1 = SE

| location1 = Adaminaby

| dist2 = 160

| dir2 = S

| location2 = Canberra

| dist3 = 40

| dir3 = NW

| location3 = Cooma

| near-n = Shannons Flat

| near-ne = Shannons Flat

| near-e = Murrumbucca

| near-se = Wambrook

| near-s = Rhine Falls

| near-sw = Frying Pan

| near-w = Adaminaby

| near-nw = Bolaro

}}

Dry Plain is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia.{{NSW GNR|id=KWIOZxZTuj|title=Dry Plain|accessdate=3 April 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6064131#map=12/-36.0791/148.9471|publisher =OpenStreetMap|title=Dry Plain|accessdate=3 April 2018}} It is located in grasslands mainly to the east of the Snowy Mountains Highway, about 25 km southeast of Adaminaby and 40 km northwest of Cooma, at an altitude of approximately {{convert|1,260|m|}}. It is about 160 km south of Canberra. At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, it had a population of 42.

It had a school from June 1925 to October 1927, generally described as a "half-time" school.{{cite web|url=https://nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au/schoolHistory?schoolId=2626|title=Dry Plain school in the school history database search|publisher=New South Wales Department of Education|accessdate=3 April 2018}}