The surrounding land has been modified by the original Indigenous inhabitants, who turned forest into grassland, and the later settlers, who have created extensive channels for irrigation and drainage.

It sits between Quamby Bluff and Mother Cummings Peak of the Great Western Tiers mountain range.

Meander's surrounds had been inhabited for thousands of years by the Pallittorre, part of the Northern Tribe of Aboriginal Tasmanians.

Timberworld, a timber and prefabricated home supplier, was formerly run by Kim Booth, leader of the Tasmanian Greens political party.

The town has had cricket, basketball, badminton, sheep dog and Australian rules football clubs.

Two of the football club's players went on to play in the Victorian Football League, a cricket chairman was awarded an Order of Australia medal for his services to the area, and the town featured in the early life of noted Australian country music singer Jean Stafford.

The original inhabitants of the Meander area were the Pallittorre, who were part of the Northern Tribe of Aboriginal Tasmanians.

There are caves south of Meander, in the Great Western Tiers, with deposits showing Aboriginal habitation, though these have not been dated.

[3] The Northern Tribe had three other bands, based near Emu Bay, Hampshire Hills and Port Sorell.

They maintained cleared grassy plains by regular careful burning, and used this method also to control undergrowth in the forests.

[5] European colonists noted, after the Pallittorre had been eliminated from the area, how the forests rapidly reclaimed the formerly cleared land.

They ranged across the land on a seasonal basis, at least as far as Mole Creek, and lived in villages of bark huts at times.

[8] From c.1824 the movement of European colonists and their farming practices onto Pallittorre lands brought the two groups into often violent conflict.

European disease, deliberate killings, forced exile to the islands of Bass Strait, and the driving of the natives from their land and food sources reduced their population.

Deliberate policy, promulgated by Governor Arthur, was to remove the native population from the land and grant it to European settlers.

[12] The first land grant in the Meander area was to Robert Garrett, Assistant Colonial Surgeon, in 1828, of 1,500 acres (610 ha) near Quamby Bluff.

Route C166 (Cheshunt Road) starts at an intersection with C167 and runs west, including a small section on the boundary, until it exits.

[24] Cheshunt is a historic home, owned by the Bowman family, whose former estate covered much of the Meander area.

[27] The town of Meander, and the surrounding 138.6 square kilometres (53.5 sq mi) area, had a population 293 at the 2006 census.

[28] The statistical measurement area was enlarged to 229.6 square kilometres (88.6 sq mi) at the 2011 census and the population recorded as 415.

She has won Golden Guitar awards, as Australia's best female country singer, and was given the Keys to the City of Nashville, Tennessee in 1991.

[33] School ran at various times at localities near Meander including: Montana; Golden Valley; Western Creek; and Jacky's Marsh.

From the 1940s school buses brought children from Jacky's Marsh, Montana, Huntsman, Western creek and other nearby areas.

[40] At the end of 2014 enrollments had declined and, with expected student numbers below twenty in 2015, the primary school began the process of closing.

It was a timber-framed weatherboard building, built on land donated by the first Baptist minister's son, the local butcher.

Prior to this, as attendance declined, the congregations of the Baptist and Uniting Churches had often combined, and roles such as the organist were shared.

[48] Different stores in Meander have sold a wide variety of goods over the life of the town; some have operated as petrol stations, butchers and grocers.

It opened in 1985 as a sawmill supplying local Australian blackwood, myrtle beach and Blackheart Sassafras, originally operating from the former Baptist Church building.

[64] In 2012, Neil William Johnston, club chairman since 2009, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the general division for service to the community of Meander.

He was also a founding member of the fire brigade, local Councillor and involved with the football, badminton and basketball clubs.