Ivanhoe is a very small township on the Cobb Highway between the Lachlan and Darling rivers in western New South Wales, Australia.

[1] The town was founded in the early 1870s, and was named after Sir Walter Scott's work of historical fiction, Ivanhoe.

The township was situated on well-used coach and stock routes connecting Wilcannia on the Darling River with Balranald on the Murrumbidgee and Booligal on the Lachlan.

In 1869 George Brown Williamson, the postmaster and a storekeeper at Booligal, purchased 40 acres (16 hectares) from the "Waiko" pastoral run at the site which was to become the township of Ivanhoe.

Williamson selected the location as a business opportunity, being the junction of two roads from Booligal and Balranald leading to Wilcannia on the Darling River.

Williamson began operating a branch store at the location under the charge of his employee Charles Hiller.

A telegraph station was opened at Ivanhoe on 5 February 1883[5] under the charge of Alfred Webber Rice, who had been promoted from his position at Campbelltown.

The Ivanhoe Post Office building, though it has been renovated in recent years, still stands adjacent to its original site.

The line through Ivanhoe later became part of the transcontinental east-west rail corridor connecting Sydney to Perth.

At separate sign-posted locations along the trail there are detailed descriptions of (1) the arrival of the railway (2) the Government Tank (3) the Post Office (4) bushrangers (5) watering holes (6) industrial trouble (7) the Cobb Highway and (8) reminiscences.

[12] Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation also provides a chronic disease GP who visits the clinic every 6 weeks.

The upgrade included a two-bay treatment and resuscitation area and a new ambulance bay which connected to the hospital.

[15] The upgrade included a new waiting area, administration offices, three treatment rooms, and featured four 'story poles' in front of the facility's entrance that were carved by inmates from the Ivanhoe Warakirri Correctional Centre.

Inmates perform cleaning and maintenance tasks, as well as participating in community projects and the Mobile Outreach program.

The heavy mineral concentrate from the mine (HMC) will be trucked to a new rail siding just outside of town, then transported to Broken Hill for further processing.

Ivanhoe will be an important logistics hub for Atlas-Campaspe, and there will be employment and business opportunities through their contractors during the construction and operational phases.

Ivanhoe is located on the Cobb Highway, National Route 75, which runs generally north–south between Moama and Wilcannia.