Dunmore, Queensland

Dunmore is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Dunmore had a population of 39 people.

Geography

About half of land area of the locality is protected within the Dunmore State Forest to the west, the Western Creek State Forest in the south-west and the Kumbarilla State Forest in the north-east.
Apart from the protected areas, the land use is a mixture of grazing on native vegetation and crop growing with feedlots in the centre of the locality.

The locality takes its name from the parish name, which in turn was named after the pastoral run held by Robert Logan in the 1840s. The run might have been named in honour of Presbyterian minister John Dunmore Lang.

In the, Dunmore had a population of 26 people.
In the, Dunmore had a population of 39 people.

There are no schools in Dunmore. The nearest government schools are Cecil Plains State School in neighbouring Cecil Plains to the north-east and Millmerran State School in Millmerran to the south-east, both of which offer primary and secondary schooling to Year 10. There are no nearby schools offering secondary schooling to Year 12; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school.