Some of the main location names in and around Sebastopol were:
- Cambrian Hill - the area south of Winter's Flat on the way to Napoleons.
- Cobblers - the area from Queen St going south in Albert Street to the southern boundary, then north-west up Prince Street to Miles and Queen Streets.
- Magpie Gully - was the first lead opened up in the area. It started on the surface in a shallow valley in the White Horse range. It was joined by the Chinaman's Lead, then into the Frenchman's Lead, then under the plateau to Sebastopol
- Magpie - starts in the north from the Whitehorse lead from the Sebastopol-Mt Clear Road, south to the Star and Garter Hotel, on the corner of the old stock route, which is the road to Geelong, east of the new bridge at the southern end of Sebastopol, and the old road running away on your left lead to Magpie.
- Redan - joining the northern boundary of Sebastopol and also named from the seige of Sevastopol in the Crimean War in the 1850's.
- Sebastopol Hill - from the southern boundary to as far north as Victoria Street. The expression originated by the Magpie people with "Are you going up the hill?"
- Sebastopol Plateau - this basalt plateau rising about 100 feet above the west bank of the Yarrowee Creek is now known as Sebastopol.
- Whitehorse Ranges - the low eroded range running north south on the east of the Yarrowee Creek
- Yarrowee Creek - the main watercourse flowing from north to south throgh Ballarat and Sebastopol, further south it becomes the Leigh River.
- Waverley Park - Henry Andrerson, one of the original settlers in the area settled on the Saltwater Creek south of present day Sebastopol. His run comprised all of present day Cambrian Hill, Magpie and Sebastopol. He named his run - "Waverley Park".
- Winter's Flat - the flat south of Sebastopol through which runs the Bonshaw Creek. Named from John Winter's Pastoral Run named "The Bonshaw", which he aquired from Henry Anderson in the 1840's.
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