Youndegin is a small town 155 kilometres (96 mi) east of Perth, Western Australia along the Goldfields Road in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

A police post existed in Youndegin in 1844; the same year several metallic objects later identified as meteorites were found not far from town during a routine police patrol.

[3] Charles Cooke Hunt was the first European to visit the area in 1864 when he established a track through the area to the eastern pastoral regions.

By 1876 the government has set aside land for a police station.

When gold was discovered further to the east in the 1880s, the traffic along the track increased immensely, and by 1891 an inn had been constructed, named the Youndegin Arms.