Yanco is a village in

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in south western

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. Yanco is a Wiradjuri aboriginal language word meaning ''the sound of running water''. Yanco is located from Leeton along Irrigation Way. Yanco is home to the

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, McCaughey Park, Murrumbidgee Rural Studies Centre and

Yanco Agricultural High School The Yanco Agricultural High School, abbreviated as YAHS, is a government-funded co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary boarding school, located in Yanco in the Leeton Shire local government area, in the Riverina regi ...

. Murrumbidgee Irrigation builds the Roach’s Surge Reservoir near Yanco, holding up to 5 million tonnes of water. Yanco North Post Office opened on 1 March 1888. It was renamed ''Yanko'' in 1892 and ''Yanco'' in 1928.

Demographics

At the Yanco had a population of 506. That had dropped to 432 at the .

Football

The town has a team in the Group 20 Rugby League competition with neighbouring village Wamoon, the Yanco-Wamoon Hawks. They are renowned for winning five successive titles from 1992 to 1996, a competition record. The club briefly merged with rivals

Narrandera Narrandera ( ), until around 1949 also spelled "Narandera", is a town located in the central Riverina region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town lies on the junction of the Newell Highway, Newell and Sturt Highway, Sturt highwa ...

from 2012 to 2014 as the Bidgee Hurricanes, but the sides demerged ahead of the 2015 season. They play at the Yanco Sports Ground, a picturesque oval located across the railway and irrigation channel from the town centre. The town had a defunct Australian Rules Football team, the Yanco Penguins, which played in the South West District Football League and Barellan & District Football League before folding in 1971. The Whitton Football Club of the Farrer Football League briefly changed its name to Whitton-Yanco in the early 1990s, however the Yanco part of the name was dropped when the club merged with Leeton in 1995.

Heritage listings

Yanco has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Yanco Weir * 259 Euroley Road:

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