Quambone

Quambone is a locality in New [South Wales], Australia. Quambone is in the Coonamble Shire local government area, north west of the state capital, Sydney and west of Coonamble.
The locality is centred at the junction of roads to Warren, [New South Wales|Warren], Coonamble and Carinda. At the, Quambone and the surrounding area had a population of 247.
Quambone is known as the gateway to the Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve.
The name derives from a Ngiyampaa word, kuwaympuyan meaning 'having blood'.
It has a hotel/motel, general store and swimming pool, and a public school. It has regular Catholic and Anglican church services. The Quambone Library is famously referred to as the smallest library in New South Wales
Doug Moppett, a long-term member of the Parliament of New South Wales, lived at Quambone.