Macumba Station

[2] The station contains a range of terrains including sandhills, mulga woodland, watercourses with redgums[3] and areas of desert and gibber plain.

[5] A man named Millard became lost in the desert country of the station in 1884, and on finding the telegraph line he burned down a pole and cut the wire to draw attention to his plight.

[6] In 1887 the station was owned by Messrs Chambers and Polhill who operated a store and ran a mail service out to Peake and surrounding areas as far as Alice Springs.

[3] The station was managed by Joseph Albert Breaden in the late 1880s and early 1890s but he left to join Carr Boyd in his expedition from Warrina to Western Australia.

[8] Alexander W. T. Grant-Thorold and Henry L'Estrange, trading as "Grant & Stokes" acquired the property previous to 1889 when they took delivery of 500 bullocks for the station[9] and then sold off 1,000 in 1890,[10] followed by another 2,500 in 1891.

[14] All the properties had been in the grip of a prolonged drought from 1892–1893[4] and it was estimated that Macumba alone had lost 1,000 head of cattle from thirst when all the waterholes and creeks had dried up.

[20] In 1908 massive floods caused a huge tract of land 40 miles (64 km) long and the same width including parts of Macumba and neighbouring Dalhousie Station to be submerged following heavy rains in the area.

[27] R. M. Williams worked at Macumba shortly after World War II transporting brumbies to use as bucking stock at the Marrabel Rodeo.

[32] The land occupying the extent of the Macumba pastoral lease was gazetted as a locality by the Government of South Australia on 26 April 2013 under the name 'Macumba'.