[11] The area is the home of the Jingili people and the traditional name of the town is Kulumindini.

The town began at the site of Number 8 Bore on Newcastle Waters Station as an Australian Army camp during World War II.

The Library has a range of services available including computer access, Wi-Fi, printing and scanning.

Library members have access to additional benefits including borrowing of a large collection of resources (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Large Print and Picture books; Comics & Graphic Novels; Movies and TV Series; Music CDs; Audiobooks; Magazines) from nearly and public library in NT, free Internet, online resources like BorrowBox[17] and Busythings.

[18] Elliott is the proposed site of a very large solar panel installation that is part of the Sun Cable project.