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Yallourn

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Latrobe City Council VIC, PO Box 264, Yallourn, VIC 3825
1300 367 700

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Yallourn, Victoria was a company town in Victoria, Australia built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex.

Yallourn, Victoria was a company town in Victoria, Australia built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex. However, expansion of the adjacent open-cut brown coal mine led to the closure and removal of the town in the 1980s. Whilst the township no longer exists, at the 2006 census, the adjacent region classified as Yallourn had a population of 251.

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Type: Towns

Population: 101 - 1,000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 28.309 km2

Elevation: 11 to 50 metres

Town elevation: 31 m

Population number: 144

Local Government Area: Latrobe City Council

Location

Latrobe City Council VIC, PO Box 264, Yallourn, VIC 3825

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Yallourn, Victoria