Mount_Emlyn

Mount Emlyn, Queensland

Mount Emlyn, Queensland

Suburb of Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia


Mount Emlyn is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Mount Emlyn had "no people or a very low population".[1]

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Geography

Mount Emlyn is in the north-east of the locality (28.0282°S 151.3131°E / -28.0282; 151.3131 (Mount Emlyn)) at 590 metres (1,940 ft) above sea level.[3][4]

History

The locality is named after the mountain, which was originally known as Mount Allys, which was the family name of Lord Cawdor of the British House of Peers. It was renamed Mount Emlyn in the late 1800s, after the second wife of Francis Arthur Gore, grazier of Yandilla Station.[2][4][5]

Mount Emlyn Provisional School opened on 10 May 1920. In 1948 it became Mount Emylyn State School. It closed on 21 April 1957.[6][7]

Demographics

In the 2016 census Mount Emlyn had a population of 16 people.[8]

In the 2021 census, Mount Emlyn had "no people or a very low population".[1]


References

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Emlyn (SAL)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 February 2023. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. "Mountain peaks and capes - Queensland". Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government. 12 November 2020. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  3. "Obituary". Darling Downs Gazette. Vol. XLVI, no. 11034. Queensland, Australia. 20 January 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 18 January 2021 via National Library of Australia.
  4. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  5. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Emlyn (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018. Edit this at Wikidata

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