[18][19][20][21][22][23] During the 1852 flood, John Sheehan saved the lives of 33 people, for which he was presented with a large engraved silver tankard, by the Government of New South Wales.

[14] Modification and enlargement of the nearby upstream Burrinjuck Dam, which were completed in 1957, have provided some protection against floodwaters from the upper reaches of the Murrumbigee.

[27] Due to the flooding hazard of its location, and not being off the railway line, the town became more of a village, most but not all of which is now on the higher land.

[28][29][30] Since 1933, water has been pumped from the river at Jugiong to two dams in the Cowang Hills from where it is reticulated to Cootamundra.

[31][32] The scheme was subsequently extended and now supplies water to settlements as far north as Young and as far west as Temora.

[35][36] There is a memorial to Sergeant Edmund Parry, a police officer shot dead by the bushranger John Gilbert, on 16 November 1864, between Jugiong and Gundagai.

[37][38] Australian cricketer turned commentator Richie Benaud spent part of his early life there.