Nimmitabel

Nimmitabel means "the place where many waters start or divide" in the local Aboriginal language.{{NSW GNR|id=ujqwBKWAKW|title=Nimmitabel|access-date=7 November 2009}} Many various spellings were adopted for the town, including: Nimmytabell (1837), Nimitabelle (1838), Nimmitabool (1841), Nimmittybel (1844), Nimmitabel (1845), Nimmitybelle, Nimithybale, Nymytable (all in 1848), Nimmitabil (1851), Nimitabille and Nimithy Bell (1856), Nimaty-Bell (1857), Nimmitabel (1858){{Cite web|url=http://nimmitabel.nsw.au/|title=NIMMITABEL – Our historic village – Welcome to the community website for the village of Nimmitabel, New South Wales.|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-07}}

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• 1840 Locals started calling the village Nimoitebool
• 1845 Appears on Townsend's map as Nimmitabel
• 1858 Church was built
• 1857 Renewal of licence for hotel
• 1858 Post office arrives
• 1861 Bell's Store
• 1863 Separate Courthouse built
• 1865 Geldmacher builds windmill
• 1866 Cameron's Store opens
• 1869 Nimmitabel Public School opens
• 1912 Railway arrives
• 1921 Area's first saw-mill opens
• 1959 Used as location for multi-Oscar nominated film The Sundowners[https://books.google.com/books?id=zCm5aNkafSYC&dq=mixed+movies+blattner&pg=PA235 "America's Best, Britain's Finest: A Survey of Mixed Movies" - Google Books], John Howard Reid, pub. Lulu.com, March 2006. {{ISBN|9781411678774}}, p.241
• 1986 Railway closes

The town is {{convert|37|km|mi}} south of Cooma and {{convert|75|km|mi}} west of Bega. Nimmitabel is on a stretch of highway shared between the Snowy Mountains Highway (HWY B72) and the Monaro Highway (HWY B23). It is on the southern end of the Great Dividing Range, at the west of the Monaro Range, and lies {{convert|20|km|mi}} west of the Wadbilliga National Park. The area around Nimmitabel has the only true chernozem soil in Australia, a very rich, fertile and dark coloured soil.KG McQueen "The Tertiary Geology And Geomorphology Of The Monaro: The Perspective In 1994" [http://regolith.org.au/docs/cars/carspub2.pdf] Centre For Australian Regolith Studies, Canberra 1994

Nimmitabel has a cool oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) with cool to mild summers and cold winters, with evenly-spread, modest rainfall throughout the year. Frosts occur regularly throughout the year, even at the height of summer. It is decently sunny, with 102.2 clear days annually, being largely on account of its leeward location.

Because of its elevation and southern latitude, several snowfalls can be expected each year from May through to October; on rare occasions, snow flurries may even occur in summer. Snow can occur heavily at times. The town has recorded sub-freezing daily maxima on multiple occasions: {{convert|-0.6|C}} on 13 June 1965, and shortly thereafter {{convert|-1.1|C}} on 17 July 1965.

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|location = Nimmitabel Wastewater Treatment Facility (1911–1975); 1,075 m AMSL; 36.51° S, 149.28° E

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|unit precipitation days = 0.2 mm

|Jan record high C = 37.2

|Feb record high C = 38.3

|Mar record high C = 31.7

|Apr record high C = 25.6

|May record high C = 23.9

|Jun record high C = 17.2

|Jul record high C = 14.5

|Aug record high C = 18.7

|Sep record high C = 25.6

|Oct record high C = 26.1

|Nov record high C = 31.1

|Dec record high C = 34.4

|year record high C = 38.3

|Jan high C = 22.8

|Feb high C = 22.6

|Mar high C = 20.2

|Apr high C = 15.7

|May high C = 11.6

|Jun high C = 8.3

|Jul high C = 7.7

|Aug high C = 9.4

|Sep high C = 12.8

|Oct high C = 16.0

|Nov high C = 18.6

|Dec high C = 21.6

|year high C =

|Jan low C = 8.5

|Feb low C = 8.9

|Mar low C = 6.7

|Apr low C = 3.6

|May low C = 0.9

|Jun low C = -1.2

|Jul low C = -1.9

|Aug low C = -1.3

|Sep low C = 0.7

|Oct low C = 3.1

|Nov low C = 5.2

|Dec low C = 7.4

|year low C =

|Jan record low C = -1.1

|Feb record low C = -1.1

|Mar record low C = -2.1

|Apr record low C = -3.3

|May record low C = -7.2

|Jun record low C = -8.7

|Jul record low C = -9.9

|Aug record low C = -10.5

|Sep record low C = -8.7

|Oct record low C = -6.6

|Nov record low C = -3.9

|Dec record low C = -2.2

|year record low C = -10.5

|Jan precipitation mm = 69.1

|Feb precipitation mm = 59.4

|Mar precipitation mm = 60.9

|Apr precipitation mm = 47.9

|May precipitation mm = 51.9

|Jun precipitation mm = 65.4

|Jul precipitation mm = 49.4

|Aug precipitation mm = 45.4

|Sep precipitation mm = 48.4

|Oct precipitation mm = 59.4

|Nov precipitation mm = 62.4

|Dec precipitation mm = 68.0

|year precipitation mm =

|Jan precipitation days = 7.6

|Feb precipitation days = 7.5

|Mar precipitation days = 7.9

|Apr precipitation days = 7.6

|May precipitation days = 8.6

|Jun precipitation days = 9.8

|Jul precipitation days = 9.0

|Aug precipitation days = 9.0

|Sep precipitation days = 9.4

|Oct precipitation days = 9.5

|Nov precipitation days = 9.0

|Dec precipitation days = 8.6

|year precipitation days =

|source 1 = [http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_070067_All.shtml Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Nimmitabel Wastewater Treatment Facility]

|date=June 2011

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The village was featured on Episode 23 of the 10th Series of the ABC TV program "Back Roads" aired on 22nd October 2024https://iview.abc.net.au/video/RF2327V023S00

File:Geldmacher's windmill.jpg|Geldmacher's windmill tower at Nimmitabel

File:Elephant Bakery Nimmitabel.JPG|The concrete elephant “George” at the Nimmitabel Bakery

File:Nimmitabel_Station_2009-03-31.JPG|Nimmitabel railway station 21 years after the last train

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• https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226458343

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• {{Commons category-inline|Nimmitabel, New South Wales}}
• [http://terraserver.com/imagery/image_gx.asp?cpx=149.284&cpy=-36.513&res=8&provider_id=350 Aerial photo of Nimmitabel from Terraserver]{{Dead link|date=February 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [http://www.policensw.com/region/southern/monaro/lac/mo12.html Information about Nimmitabel, including history and photos]
• [http://www.cooma.nsw.gov.au/monaropioneers/nimmitabel/pioneers/goed3.htm Some history from Peter Goed, particular focus on the 1950s]
• [http://www.cooma.nsw.gov.au/monaropioneers/nimmitabel/pioneers/goed4.htm Article: "The Day the Stars Came to Nimmitabel..The Making of the Sundowners" by Peter Goed @ Cooma-Monaro website (includes photos from the making of the film in 1959)]

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