[5][2] Tivendale consists of land bounded partly by the Tiger Brennan Drive in the north and the Adelaide-Darwin Railway in the north-east and the east, and partly in the south by the Hudson Creek.

[1] The name is derived from a nearby road called Tivendale Road which is itself named after Lyle Mason Tivendale, a Northern Territory resident who worked as a stock and meat inspector and as a health inspector during the first half of the twentieth century.

The suburb’s boundary and name were gazetted on 21 April 2004.

[4][2] The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Tivendale had no people living within its boundaries.

[3] Tivendale is located within the federal division of Solomon, the territory electoral division of Spillett and the unincorporated area known as the Northern Territory Rates Act Area.