[4] The name Woodanilling is Aboriginal in origin and means either "lots of minnows" or "place where the bronzewing pigeon nests".

[6] At around this time the town boasted five general stores, a blacksmith, post office, bakery, hotel, railway station and trotting track.

[12] Between 1920 and 1960 migrants from Ireland, Germany, England and even China arrived contributing to the fabric of the local community.

[14] By November the minister of education decided that a new primary school would be built but older students would travel to Katanning for their classes.

The Woodanilling Nature Reserve, east of the townsite, was gazetted on 8 September 1911, has a size of 1.34 square kilometres (0.52 sq mi), and is located within the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion.