[1] Established at some time prior to 1884 by John Costello he sold it to Armitage and Gillately shortly after taking it up.
[2] In 1886 the property was having a good season with 6 inches (152 mm) of rain recorded in less than a month and all the waterholes were full[3] John Henderson was running Tanbar in 1888.
[8] By 1931 the station encompassed an area of 3,000 square miles (7,770 km2) and was managed by Robert John Kyle Little but the property was still owned by Rocklands.
[11] Western Grazing acquired Tanbar, from the Stanbroke Pastoral Company, in 2004 at the same time as Rocklands Station found further to the north-west along the Northern Territory border.
[12] Currently still owned by the Western Grazing Company the property occupies an area of 8,300 square kilometres (3,205 sq mi) and is managed by Dustin and Luisa Tuite.