Paynesville (WA)
- Local Government Area
- Mount Magnet
- Area
- 3,329.52 km²
- Coordinates
- -27.9953, 118.3081
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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About Paynesville (WA)
Paynesville is a ghost town and locality in the Mid West region of Western Australia between the towns of Mount Magnet and Sandstone. Gold was discovered in 1898 in the immediate area by the prospectors Thomas Payne and Waldeck; Paynes Find is also named after Thomas Payne. The townsite was surveyed in 1898 and was initially known as Paynton and East Mount Magnet and also known as Fords after another prospector who had worked the area.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Mount Magnet 44 km
- Lake Austin 57 km
- Cooladar Hill 62 km
- Daggar Hills 72 km
- Cue 73 km
- Reedy 85 km