It is located 157 kilometres (98 mi) north of Melbourne and, at the 2021 Census, had a population of 1,411.

It was named by poet and later local Goldfields Commissioner Richard Henry Horne in 1854.

[2] The goldfields became no longer viable due to the underground water table and were closed during the gold rush.

3 (on the site of the previous wartime internment camp) and received migrants from Bonegilla before closing in June 1953.

[5] Golfers play at the course of the Rushworth Golf Club on Tatura Road.