Lottah

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{{Use Australian English|date=July 2022}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Lottah

| state = tas

| image =

| caption =

| coordinates = {{coord|41|13|15|S|148|01|19|E|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_label_position = left

| pop = 13

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}

| pop_footnotes={{cite web |url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC60353?opendocument|title=2016 Census Quick Stats Lottah (Tas.) |author= |date=23 October 2017 |website=quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=2 April 2021 |quote=}}

| lga = Break O'Day Council

| postcode = 7216

| stategov = Lyons

| fedgov = Lyons

| region = North-east

| location1 = St Helens

| dist1 = 27

| dir1 = NW

| near-nw = Weldborough

| near-n = Goulds Country

| near-ne = Goulds Country

| near-e = Goulds Country

| near-w = Weldborough

| near-sw = Pyengana

| near-s = Pyengana

| near-se = Goulds Country

}}

Lottah is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Break O'Day in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania, Australia. The locality is about {{convert|27|km}} north-west of the town of St Helens. The 2016 census recorded a population of 13 for the state suburb of Lottah.

It is a small town in Northeastern Tasmania. The closest settlement is Pyengana and the closest major town is St Helens.

==History==

Lottah was gazetted as a locality in 1969.{{cite web |url=https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/#p1 |title=Placenames Tasmania – Lottah |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Placenames Tasmania |access-date=2 April 2021 |at=Select "Search", enter "1615H", click "Search", select row, map is displayed, click "Details"}} It was historically known as Blue Tier Junction. A post office of that name was established in 1877 and renamed "Lottah" in 1895,{{cite news|url=https://www.postmarks.co.za/Postal%20History%20Tasmania%20Black%20River%20to%20Branxholm.htm|title=Postal History of Tasmania|access-date=1 October 2021}} supposedly an Aboriginal word for "gum tree".{{cite news|url=https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22682/3/dennison-L-Z-opt.pdf|title=Where in Tasmania?: A Compilation of Place Names and Their Histories in Tasmania|first=C. J.|last=Dennison|year=2003}}

Tin was discovered in Lottah in about 1875.[http://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/goulds-country-tas Goulds Country, TAS], Aussie Towns. The Anchor Mine became operational in 1880, and the town of Lottah grew up around the mine. At its peak, it had several hundred residents, and community facilities included a school, two hotels, two churches, a bakery, and a football club.[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-16/the-mining-history-of-lottah-in-north-west-tasmania/7250248 Lottah: Once-thriving mining town a virtual ghost town in Tasmania's north east], ABC Radio Hobart, 16 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2017. Lottah supported a small Chinese community, and one of its more notable residents was Senator Thomas Bakhap, who had a Chinese stepfather and worked as an interpreter.[http://biography.senate.gov.au/thomas-jerome-kingston-bakhap/ BAKHAP, THOMAS JEROME KINGSTON (1866–1923)], The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate People born in Lottah during its heyday include architecture professor Brian Lewis and RAAF officer Alan Charlesworth.[http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130454b.htm Charlesworth, Alan Moorehouse (1903–1978)] at Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved on 19 October 2017. The Anchor Mine closed in 1950, at which point the town's population had been in decline for several decades.