Coutts Crossing (population 1,053[2]) is a rural village in the Clarence Valley Council of New South Wales, Australia.

The village is named after Thomas Coutts, a settler from Scotland who established the nearby Kangaroo Creek pastoral station in 1840.

Coutts was accused of perpetrating a mass poisoning of Aboriginals on the Kangaroo Creek run.

[3][4] British occupation in the immediate vicinity around Coutts Crossing began in 1840 with the arrival of pastoral squatter William Forster.

He set up a sheep station in the area which he named Purgatory due to the high level of Aboriginal resistance he encountered while taking possession of the land.