Mount Emlyn, Queensland

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Mount Emlyn
Queensland
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Mount Emlyn
Coordinates 28°02′00″S151°18′00″E / 28.0333°S 151.3°E / -28.0333; 151.3 (Mount Emlyn (centre of locality))
Population0 (2021 census) [1]
 • Density0.000/km2 (0.00/sq mi)
Postcode(s) 4357
Area24.1 km2 (9.3 sq mi)
Time zone AEST (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 of 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°01′42″S151°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]

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Emlyn (SAL)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 February 2023. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  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.
  8. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Emlyn (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg