Desmond is an abandoned mining town of the Shire of Ravensthorpe in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.

[5][6][7] The townsite of Desmond was gazetted at the railway siding in 1909, originally as Eldverton, after the nearby mine.

[9] An official map of the townsite from around 1909 shows the town to the south-west of the railway line and siding.

The town itself consisted of the north-south running Elverd, Potter, Pender and Hatfield Streets, with 114 blocks of land allocated along them.

[11] The mine and the town were originally named after Bob Elverdton, who found gold and copper in the area in 1900 and a first phase of mining at Elverdton took place during the First World War, when copper was in short supply.