Nubba is a locality and former railway station on the Main South railway line in New South Wales, Australia, located midway between Wallendbeen and Harden. The station was open between 1882 and 1975 and has now been demolished.Nubba station. NSWrail.net, accessed 29 August 2009.
Nubba is also a civil parish of Harden County, New South Wales.Robert McLean, The New atlas of Australia : the complete work containing over one hundred maps and full descriptive geography of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, together with numerous illustrations and copious indices (Sydney :J. Sands, [1886) Map 11.County of Cowley and Co. Buccleuch New South Wales, 1871 map, County of Cowley and Co. Buccleuch New South Wales, 1871 map.
Prime Minister Harold Holt's paternal grandparents owned a large farming property near Nubba. As a child, he lived there for a brief period and attended the local state school, Nubba Public School.
At the 2006 census, Nubba had a population of 281 people. By 2016 that had fallen to 76, then increased by one to 77 at the 2021 census.
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