Alma is a town in Victoria, Australia, along the
Maryborough – St Arnaud Road, west of
Maryborough. In the 2006 census, Alma and the
surrounding area had a population of 692.

Alma began as a gold-mining settlement and was
named after the Battle of Alma in the Crimean
War. It was surveyed in 1860, the Post Office
opening on 1 July 1861. (closed 1969), and
proclaimed in 1891. Alma had a peak population of
2,109.