It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one kilometre west of Baddaginnie Creek.

[1] This name was related to Sri Lankan labourers who worked in a railway line project in early 1900.

The town was surveyed in 1857, named after the nearby Baddaginnie Creek, but settlement was slow, a Post Office finally opening on 16 September 1879.

Wilmot, who had spent some time in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), from baddaginnie (bada-gini - literally 'stomach on fire’), meaning "hungry" in the Sinhala language.

[3] George "Joey" Palmer, the 1880s Australian test cricketer, died there on 22 August 1910.