The town is in the Bland Shire local government area 548 kilometres (341 mi) west of the state capital, Sydney.

[3] Homestead farms along the railway line were available for sale to "farmer's sons, wheatgrowers and landseekers generally" later that year.

[5] The New South Wales government built a 60,000 bushel silo for bulk handing of wheat at Kikoira in 1933.

[7][8] The Bank of New South Wales established a branch in the town in 1935 and a bush nursing hospital was built the following year.

[17] The Sydney Morning Herald described the shanty town that grew up alongside what was called the Gibsonvale mine as a "scene unknown since the gold rush days".

[19] Victoria Cross winner Reg Rattey was working at the Gibsonvale mine when World War II broke out.