[2] Joseph Wild was employed by Brigade Major John Ovens and Captain Mark Currie to guide them to the Murrumbidgee River.

Located in the suburb are a small group of shops, the senior campus of St Mary MacKillop College, Isabella Plains Primary School, the Tuggeranong automatic weather station[3] and Isabella Plains neighbourhood oval.

A small shopping centre is located on the corner of Ellerston Avenue and Galloway Street.

This includes a small supermarket, a hairdresser, a pathology clinic, a chemist and a takeaway shop.

There is also an Isabella Plains Neighbourhood house, and a small doctors surgery opposite and to the right of the shops.