Underbool

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Underbool

| state = vic

| image = UnderboolTownEntrySign.JPG

| caption = Mallee Highway at Underbool

| lga = Rural City of Mildura

| postcode = 3509

| pop = 216

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}

| pop_footnotes = {{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC22599|name=Underbool (State Suburb)|accessdate=1 September 2020|quick=on}}

| est =

| elevation= 91

|use_lga_map = yes

| coordinates = {{coord|35|10|0|S|141|49|0|E|display=inline,title}}

| maxtemp =

| mintemp =

| rainfall =

| stategov = Mildura

| fedgov = Mallee

| dist1 = 476

| location1= Melbourne

| dist2 = 154

| location2= Mildura[http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp Travelmate]

| near-nw = Murray-Sunset

| near-n = Murray-Sunset

| near-ne = Torrita

| near-w = Linga

| near-e = Torrita

| near-sw = Big Desert

| near-s = Big Desert

| near-se = Big Desert

}}

Underbool is a town in the Mallee region of north-west Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Rural City of Mildura local government area and on the Mallee Highway—between Ouyen and the South Australian border – {{convert|476|km}} north west of the state capital, Melbourne. The town services the grain farmers and graziers in the area. For tourists it provides access to the Pink Lakes in Murray-Sunset National Park.

The town name is thought to come from the German word underbolt given to it by surveyor Dr. Neumayer when he camped there in October 1861.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}

A post office opened on 15 July 1912 when a regular mail service was provided by the opening of the railway from Ouyen to Murrayville a month earlier.{{Citation | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Underbool* | access-date = 9 February 2021 }}

Underbool Primary School (No. 3819) opened on 5 November 1913, with a purpose-built school building opening in June 1919. A second weatherboard building was built in 1929, and the former Daalko school building moved there in 1967.{{cite book | title=What Happened To All The Schools? | publisher=Local History Resource Centre | year=1989 | pages=72}}

With its neighbouring township Walpeup Underbool had a football team (Walpeup-Underbool) in the Mallee Football League until the league folded in 2015. The team merged with Ouyen and play two matches a season in Underbool in the Sunraysia Football League. Golfers play at the course of the Underbool Golf Club on Monash Avenue.{{Citation | author= Golf Select | title = Underbool | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=1114 | access-date = 11 May 2009}}