Before 1908 Corrigin's only connection with the rest of the state was the railway track that ran to Merredin and it was difficult to get anyone to take up land near the rabbit proof fence.

Standing crops were flattened, fences in low-lying areas were washed away and most of the town was submerged under at least 61 cm (2 ft) of water.

[7] The railway line from Wickepin, Western Australia opened a month later, and the main office of the local Road Board moved to the town.

In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding.

Destructive winds and 60 mm (2 in) of rain tore through over the course of an hour leaving behind fallen powerlines, uprooted trees, sheds torn apart and roofs ripped from homes.

Corrigan, the fictional town in which the 2009 Craig Silvey novel Jasper Jones and the subsequent film are set, derives its name from Corrigin.