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Shepparton is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in the north east of Victoria, Australia, approximately 181km north-east of Melbourne. According to the 2011 Census, the population of the locality was 29,553, while the population of the entire Shepparton-Mooroopna urban centre was 42,741.It began as a sheep station and river crossing before undergoing a major transformation as a railway town. Today it is an agricultural and manufacturing centre and the centre of the Goulburn Valley irrigation system, one of the largest centres of irrigation in Australia. It is a major regional service city and is the seat of local government and civic administration centre for the City of Greater Shepparton. The Greater Shepparton urban area includes surrounding centers of Tatura, Merrigum, Mooroopna, Murchison, Dookie, Toolamba and Grahamvale.ToponomyThe name of Shepparton is derived from the surname of the town's first European settler Sherbourne Sheppard.It is sometimes imagined the name is from Shepperton in England, but this is not the case.HistoryPrior to the European settlement of Australia, it was thought to be inhabited by the Yorta Yorta Indigenous Australian tribe.