Major Plains, Victoria

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{{Infobox Australian place | type = town

| name = Major Plains

| state = vic

| image =

| caption =

| lga = Rural City of Benalla

| lga2 = City of Greater Shepparton

| use_lga_map = yes

| coordinates = {{coord|36|22|S|145|48|E|display=inline,title}}

| postcode = 3725

| est =

| pop = 37

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}

| pop_footnotes = {{Census 2016 AUS | id = SSC21571 | name = Major Plains (State Suburb) | accessdate = 8 December 2020 | quick = on}}

| elevation=

| maxtemp =

| mintemp =

| rainfall =

| stategov = Shepparton

| stategov2 =Euroa

| fedgov = Indi

| fedgov2 = Nicholls

| dist1 = 226

| dir1 = N

| location1= Melbourne

| dist2 = 44

| dir2 = E

| location2= Shepparton

| dist3 = 33

| dir3 = W

| location3= Benalla

}}

Major Plains is a locality situated to the north-west of Benalla in Victoria, Australia.{{cite web | title=Major Plains | work=Gazetteer of Australia | publisher=Geoscience Australia | url=http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=248082 | accessdate=2009-06-21 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605043350/http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=248082 | archive-date=5 June 2011 | url-status=dead }} It is 226 kilometres by road from Melbourne.

The main east–west roads in the locality are Dookie-Devenish Road, Major Plains Road and Gooroombat-Dookie College Road (Thomas Road), while the main north–south roads are Duggans Road, Benalla Boundary Road (which divides the local government areas) and Roberts Road.{{cite web| title=Interactive Map|work=Land.vic.gov.au|url=http://services.land.vic.gov.au/landchannel/jsp/map/InteractiveMapIntro.jsp|accessdate=2009-06-21}}

A primary school operated in the locality between 1918 and 1946.{{cite web| title=Major Plains|work=Building Files:Primary Schools|url=http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/custom/jsp/daPublicBaseContainer.jsp|accessdate=2009-06-21}} The original Major Plains Post Office was opened on 1 July 1870 and was temporarily renamed as Devenish Post Office between 1874 and 1878 before closing in 1898. A post office was re-established in 1901 and operated until 1948.{{cite web|title=Post Office List |work=Premier Postal Auctions – Environment| url=https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=|accessdate=2009-06-21}}

The heavy clay soil originally supported a Grey Box and Red Gum grassy woodland, and grassy wetlands to the north of Grogans Road.

Native shrub species include Mallee Wattle (Acacia montana), Hedge Wattle (Acacia paradoxa), Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) Sweet Bursaria (Bursaria spinosa) and Drooping Cassinia (Cassinia arcuata).{{cite web |title=Vegetation Profile for the Dookie Wetlands and Gilgai Plains |publisher=Department of Natural Resources & Environment |url=http://www.gbcma.vic.gov.au/revegetation/profiles/pdfs/dookie5.PDF |accessdate=2009-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001164435/http://www.gbcma.vic.gov.au/revegetation/profiles/pdfs/dookie5.PDF |archive-date=1 October 2009 |url-status=dead }}