Mount Emlyn, Queensland


Mount Emlyn is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region of Queensland, Australia. In the, Mount Emlyn had "no people or a very low population".

Geography

Mount Emlyn is in the north-east of the locality at above sea level.

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

Demographics

In the, Mount Emlyn had a population of 16 people.
In the, Mount Emlyn had "no people or a very low population".

Education

There are no schools in Mount Emlyn. The nearest government primary and secondary school is Millmerran State School in Millmerran to the north. There are no nearby secondary schools providing education to Year 12; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school.