Elburgon is a small town in
Nakuru County
Nakuru County is a county in Kenya. It is County number 32 out of the 47 Kenyan Counties. Nakuru County is a host to Kenya's Forth City – Nakuru City. On 1 December 2021, President Uhuru Kenyatta awarded a City Charter status to Nakuru, ranki ...
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. It is located 30 kilometres west of the capital city of
Nakuru
Nakuru is a city in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It is the capital of Nakuru County, and was formerly the capital of Rift Valley Province. As of 2019, Nakuru had an urban and rural population of 570,674 inhabitants, making it the largest ...
, the provincial capital. Nearest towns include
Molo,
Njoro
Njoro is an agricultural town 18 km west south west of Nakuru, Kenya situated on the western rim of the Rift Valley. Njoro town was the headquarters of the former Njoro District, hived off Nakuru District. Since 2010, when Njoro District was ...
and
Rongai
Rongai is a town in Nakuru County, Kenya. It lies 30 km west of Nakuru, along the A104 Road and the railway line between Nakuru and Uganda. It is about 10 kilometres north of Elburgon and 15 kilometres east of Molo.The Rough Guide Map - Ke ...
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Elburgon is an electoral ward of the
Molo Constituency Molo Constituency is an Constituencies of Kenya, electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of eleven constituencies in Nakuru County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections, renamed from the former Nakuru West Constituency.
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and Nakuru County Council. Elburgon is also a name of an
administrative division
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in Nakuru County. Elburgon division is divided into three
locations: Elburgon, Mariashoni and Turi.
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Transport
It is served by a station on the branch railway to Kisumu
Kisumu ( ) is the third-largest city in Kenya after the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa (census 2019). It is the third-largest city after Kampala and Mwanza in the Lake Victoria Basin.
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See also
* Railway stations in Kenya
Railway stations in Kenya include:
Maps
* UN Map
* UNHCR Atlas Map
* Prondis Map
* Railway Gazette International June 2012, p31
* KRC Map
Towns served by metre gauge railways
* Mombasa - ocean port
* Changamwe
* Miritini
* Mazeras
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Lumbering
Apart from agriculture the lumbering industry serves as a key economic activity in the town. The timber industry serves as a key employer in the town. Lumbering companies such as Timsales ltd and CHEKIMU WOODMART are just a few of the logging and sawmilling factories that harvest timber in the highland region of Nakuru and beyond.
References
External links
Elburgon Town
Populated places in Nakuru County
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