It is in the Edward River Council local government area and on the Cobb Highway between Hay and Deniliquin, around 769 kilometres (478 mi) south west of the state capital, Sydney.

The site of Booroorban was on a stock-route supplying the Victorian market that developed in the 1850s, located on the Old Man Plain between the Murrumbidgee River and Billabong Creek.

[5] By late 1860 a public house was constructed near the well by Messrs. Roberts and Roby, businessmen from Deniliquin, which became known as the Pine Ridge Inn (or Hotel).

[8]  He carried out extensive repairs to the establishment which had "for some time been in a most dilapidated state" and constructed a dam on nearby Box Creek.

[10]  Until at least the late 1870s, despite the official naming of Booroorban village, the locality was more often referred to as Pine Ridge (or Pineridge) in the Hay newspaper, the Riverine Grazier.