What is Milparinka, New South Wales?
{{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Milparinka | state = nsw | image = Milparinka pano1.jpg | caption = Historic buildings at Milparinka | coordinates = {{coord|29.732|S|141.868|E|display=inline,title}} | pop = 77 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}} |pop_footnotes= | postcode = | elevation = | dist1 = 250 | dir1 = N | location1 = [[Broken Hill, New South Wales]] | dist2 = 40 | dir2 = S | location2 = [[Tibooburra, New South Wales]] | lga = [[Unincorporated Far West Region]] | county = [[Evelyn County, New South Wales|Evelyn]] | stategov = [[Electoral district of Barwon|Barwon]] | fedgov = [[Division of Farrer|Farrer]] | maxtemp = | mintemp = 6 |mintemp_footnotes= | rainfall = | est = 1880 }} [[File:Milparinka pano1.jpg|thumb|320px|Milparinka courthouse, police station and post office]] '''Milparinka''' is a very small town in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. About ten people live in Milparinka, which is about 296 kilometres north of [[Broken Hill, New South Wales|Broken Hill]].<ref name=at>{{cite web|url=http://www.townsinaustralia.com/Milparinka.853.htm|title=Milparinka, New South Wales|first=|last=|work=Towns in Australia – Information on Aussie towns, cities|year=2011|accessdate=23 May 2011}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=age>{{cite web |url= http://www.theage.com.au/news/New-South-Wales/Milparinka/2005/02/17/1108500197654.html |title=Milparinka – New South Wales |first= |last= |work=theage.com.au |year=8 February 2004 |accessdate=23 May 2011}}</ref> It is built beside a waterhole on Evelyn Creek, named by the explorer [[Charles Sturt]] after his wife in 1844. Sturt and his group had been trapped at a waterhole they called Depot Glen nearby on Preservation Creek for seven months while they waited for rain.<ref name=at/> Gold was found at Milparinka, which became the centre for the [[Albert Goldfield]]s in the 1880s. Two other nearby gold towns, Albert and Mount Browne, were