[1] The original town site was 20 km (12 mi) south and settled in the 1830s but was relocated after a flood washed it away in the 1850s.

[11] Currently a single daily Xplorer diesel railmotor operating between Sydney and Moree serves the station.

[13] Mahla Pearlman AO (2 June 1937 – 2 December 2011) was the first woman to become chief judge of any jurisdiction within the NSW legal system.

Her grandfather Abraham Pearlman had come to Boggabri as a shopkeeper, becoming a farmer in 1905 on the acquisition of the property Herzlton.

Rugby Union player Steve Devine - born in Boggabri in 1976 - later moved to New Zealand, and briefly played for the All Blacks.