Other than sheep, agriculturally the area was known for wheat, barley, oats, lupins, Wimmera rye, and clover.

[2] The area is about 70 kilometres north of Geraldton, and includes the small Ogilvie Nature Reserve.

The Ogilvie State School was in existence by 1917,[6] while two acres of land was set aside for a tennis court in the same year.

[11] Its representations included to the Western Australian Minister for Agriculture for emus to be declared vermin following continued widespread crop destruction.

[13] In that year, the wheat and barley crops were only a moderate harvest, an abundance of emus, but a notable impact of foxes on lambing stock.