Nymagee

About Nymagee

Nymagee is a small town in the north west of New South Wales, 618 kilometres north west of Sydney, 130 kilometres south west of Nyngan and 89 kilometres south of Cobar, in the Shire of Cobar, the state electoral district of Barwon and the federal division of Parkes. Nymagee was originally a copper mining town and at its peak supported a population of over 2200, half of them Chinese migrants; when the mine closed in 1917 most residents left. The town is associated with the fictional character Clancy from Banjo Paterson's poem 'Clancy of the Overflow', whose sheep station The Overflow lies about 32 kilometres south east of Nymagee. At the 2016 census, Nymagee had a population of 101.