Cadoux is a town in the northeastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

The townsite was gazetted in 1929[2] and the railway siding was opened in the same year.

[3] Cadoux, and neighbouring Burakin to the north, are considered unusually seismically active for Australia, with minor earthquakes reported on an annual basis.

It had a Richter magnitude of 6.1 and was the second most damaging earthquake in the history of Western Australia.

[6] Only one injury was recorded in the entire earthquake−a broken arm sustained by a child from falling masonry.