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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type     = town
| name     = Patchewollock
| state    = vic
| image    = PatchewollockTownEntrySign.JPG
| caption  = Entering Patchewollock
| lga      = Shire of Yarriambiack
| lga2     = Rural City of Mildura
| postcode = 3491
| est      = 
| pop      = 149 
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}
| pop_footnotes = <ref name="abs">{{Census 2016 AUS |id=SSC26417 |name=Patchewollock (State Suburb) |accessdate=2007-10-01 |quick=on }}</ref>
| elevation =  
| use_lga_map = yes
| coordinates = {{coord|35|22|58|S|142|11|24|E|display=inline,title}}
| maxtemp  = 
| mintemp  = 
| rainfall = 
| stategov = [[Electoral district of Mildura|Mildura]]
| fedgov   = [[Division of Mallee|Mallee]]
| dist1    = 429
| dir1     = NW
| location1 = Melbourne
| dist2    = 149
| dir2     = S
| location2 = Mildura
| dist3    = 47
| dir3     = S
| location3 = Ouyen
| near-nw  = [[Torrita, Victoria|Torrita]]
| near-n   = [[Walpeup]], [[Ouyen]]
| near-ne  = [[Tempy, Victoria|Tempy]]
| near-w   = [[Big Desert, Victoria|Big Desert]]
| near-e   = [[Speed, Victoria|Speed]], [[Turriff, Victoria|Turriff]]
| near-sw  = [[Yaapeet, Victoria|Yaapeet]]
| near-s   = [[Hopetoun, Victoria|Hopetoun]]
| near-se  = [[Lascelles, Victoria|Lascelles]]
}}
'''Patchewollock''' is a town in north-west [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. At the [[2021 Australian census|2021 census]], Patchewollock had a population of 149.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Australian Bureau of Statistics |title=Patchewollock 2021 Census All persons QuickStats |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL22045 |access-date=29 July 2022 |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629235253/https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL22045 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The name Patchewollock originated from two Aboriginal words: ''putje'', plenty, and ''wallah'', [[Triodia (grass)|porcupine grass]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Patchewollock |publisher=Yarriambiack Shire Council |url=http://www.yarriambiack.vic.gov.au/tourism/patchewollock |access-date=1 September 2012 |archive-date=17 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317175351/http://www.yarriambiack.vic.gov.au/tourism/patchewollock/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The town was first established after the [[First World War]], when [[Soldier settlement (Australia)|soldier settlement]] blocks were appearing in the area. A post office (originally a receiving office) opened on 27 July 1920.<ref name = "a">{{Citation |last=Phoenix Auctions History |title=Post Office List |url=http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Patchewollock* |access-date=26 January 2021 |archive-date=12 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912042729/http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=%2APatchewollock%2A }}</ref>

Previous localities of Baring {{coord|35|24|S|142|04|E|region:AU-VIC_type:city|name=Baring}} with a post office open from 1926 to 1948, and Dering {{coord|35|22|S|142|19|E|region:AU-VIC_type:city|name=Dering}} with a post office open from 1923 to 1949, lie within that part of the Patchewollock locality in the [[Rural City of Mildura]].{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

{{As of |2011}}, the township maintained a [[pub]] and a post office.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Patche |url=https://www.patchepub.com.au/ |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=The Patche |language=en-AU}}</ref>

==History==
Patchewollock is a rural township located within the traditional lands of the [[Wergaia people|Wergaia]] tribes, whose Aboriginal expression literally means the "place of the plenty porcupine grass". By the end of [[World War I]], the town was founded as a [[Soldier settlement (Australia)|soldier settlement]].

The town's most notable feature is a giant mural silo portrait, which depicts the life of grazier and grain farmer, [[Nick "Noodle" Hulland]], painted in 2016 by street artist [[Fintan Magee]].

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