Located in far western New South Wales, Silverton is a former mining town that is now geared towards tourism. The earliest settlers in the area are thought to be the Wiljakali people. Pastoralists first began settling the area in the 1850s, with the main trade route to the area via the Darling River. Prospectors began working in the area in 1867 looking for gold, before workers drilling a well on a station south of the town site hit a lode of silver in 1875. Silverton was proclaimed a town on 17 September 1880, and at the town's peak, it was home to over 3000 people, before sharply declining after the discovery of high value minerals at nearby Broken Hill. These days the town hosts several artists, with some maintaining their own galleries.

Population:

48 ¹

Postcode:

2880

Location:

959 km northwest of Sydney, and 417 km northeast of Adelaide

Main Roads:

Silverton Rd (unnumbered)

Radio Stations:

FM:

2DRY FM (107.7 MHz), ABC Classic (103.7 MHz), ABC News Radio (104.5 MHz), ABC Radio National (102.9 MHz), Hill FM (96.5 MHz and 106.9 MHz), SBS Radio (98.1 MHz), Sky Sports Radio (100.5 MHz), Triple J (102.1 MHz) and Vision Christian Radio (94.9 MHz)

AM:

2BH (567 kHz) and ABC Radio (999 kHz)

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NEW Town Centre:

Looking west along Burke St, Silverton, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

NEW Town Centre:

Looking east along Burke St, Silverton, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

¹ Australian Government, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census Data, 2021, Silverton, Census All persons QuickStats, Suburbs and Localities, SAL13560.