The area now known as North Yalgogrin, lies on the traditional lands of Wiradjuri people.

[2] The name is said to be derived from a Wiradjuri language word Yalgaa, meaning dried up and hard, referring to a dead box gum tree.

[17] It was also, but far less frequently, called by the modern-day name of the locality, North Yalgogrin.

[19] Yangogrin became the centre for the surrounding mining district, in the absence of other towns and villages in the area.

The village, although smaller in population, was more settled, as a service town for the surrounding agricultural district.

It declined relative to newly-established places that had railway stations and grain sidings, like Weethalle, Kikoira, Ungarie, and especially Tallimba.

Surrounded on all sides by such places, Yalgogrin essentially was pulled apart by their economic gravity.

[24][25] Yalgogrin still had sporting teams and tennis matches, into the 1930s, but increasingly the surrounding area came to rely upon Tallimba for its services.

[33] In 1985 and 1991, blocks of land in the old village were put up for sale to recover rates left overdue by their—by then mainly deceased—owners.