Quambone is a small village situated 55 kilometres West of Coonamble and 18 Kilometres from the Macquarie Marshes. Quambone has a small two teacher school set in pleasant surroundings, Australia’s smallest library, two churches, a friendly Hotel/Motel and General Store/Post Office.

The area known today as Quambone was part of George Gibsons large squatter age dating back to 1844/45 which later became Quambone Station. At one point it was proposed that Quambone would be on the rail line and the village had three hotels, numerous shops, bakeries, blacksmiths, a cordial factory, bank and numerous sawmills.

The Macquarie Marshes are approximately 100kms long and 25-30kms wide and support a wide range of plants and animals. The Marshes contain extensive areas of common reed, cumbungi, river redgum woodlands, coolibah woodlands and water couch grasslands. The Macquarie Marshes covers 200,000 hectares and is recognized as the major colonial waterbird nesting area in Australia.
The Macquarie Marsh Nature Reserve covers approx 20,000 hectares and is recognized under the Ramsar Convention
as a Wetland of International importance. The reserve is managed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The remaining 90% is mainly private land managed for agricultural purposes. The Nature Reserve is mostly surrounded by private land and it is important to respect this when visiting.

The Aboriginal people who lived in the region were almost certainly members of the Weilwan people. They were hunters who lived around the waterways of the area including the Marra and Marthaguy Creeks, Macquarie and Castlereagh Rivers.
The primary school houses a unique collection of photographs of the local Weilwan tribe taken by Sydney based
photographer Charles Kerry in 1898.