[1] The name was first used for a town proclaimed on 1 November 1888 and which was formally declared to have ceased to exist on 8 July 1982.

[10] The Alma and Victoria Mine Site and Structures are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.

[12] The setting for The Silent Sea, written by Catherine Edith Macauley Martin under the pseudonym Mrs. Alick Macleod, was based on mining and life at Waukaringa.

[13] Australian Rules footballer Harold Oliver was born in Waukaringa in 1891.

[14] Waukaringa is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.