Mount Emlyn
Queensland
Mount Emlyn is located in Queensland
Mount Emlyn
Mount Emlyn
Coordinates28°02′00″S 151°18′00″E / 28.0333°S 151.3°E / -28.0333; 151.3 (Mount Emlyn (centre of locality))
Population16 (2016 census)[1]
 • Density0.664/km2 (1.72/sq mi)
Postcode(s)4357
Area24.1 km2 (9.3 sq mi)
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10:00)
LGA(s)Toowoomba Region
State electorate(s)Southern Downs
Federal division(s)Maranoa
Suburbs around Mount Emlyn:
Lavelle Lavelle Rocky Creek
Kooroongarra Mount Emlyn Rocky Creek
Kooroongarra Kooroongarra Kooroongarra

Mount Emlyn is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2016 census Mount Emlyn had a population of 16 people.[1]

Geography

Mount Emlyn is in the north-east of the locality (28°01′42″S 151°18′47″E / 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]

In the 2016 census Mount Emlyn had a population of 16 people.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Emlyn (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Mount Emlyn – locality in Toowoomba Region (entry 48009)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. 1 2 "Mount Emlyn – mountain in Toowoomba Region (entry 11618)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Obituary". Darling Downs Gazette. Vol. XLVI, no. 11034. Queensland, Australia. 20 January 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 18 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  7. ↑ "Agency ID 5891, Mount Emlyn State School". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
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