East Greenmount, Queensland
town and locality in Queensland, Australia
East Greenmount is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of East Greenmount had a population of 351 people.
Geography
East Greenmount is on the Darling Downs and, as its name suggests, to the immediate east of the locality of Greenmount. The town is in west of the locality at the junction of the New England Highway and the Greenmount Clifton Road.
The New England Highway enters the locality from the south (Nobby), passes immediately east of the town and exits to the north-west (Cambooya).
Mount Sibley is an isolated peak in the south-east of East Greenmount (27.8012°S 151.9648°E / -27.8012; 151.9648 (Mount Sibley)), rising to 676 metres (2,218 ft) above sea level. The mountain was named after James Sibley, a pastoralist and publican, who leased the Clifton pastoral run in the early 1840s.
Emu Creek commences at the northern boundary of the locality (formed by the confluence of Elliott Creek and Allan Gully in Ramsay) and exits to the west (Greenmount). It is a tributary of Hodgson Creek, which is a tributary of the Condamine River, part of the Murray–Darling basin.
History
The name Greenmount comes from a farm name used by Donald Mackintosh who represented the area as a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cambooya from 1899 to 1912 and Pittsworth from 1912 to 1915.
The public source identifies “East Greenmount, Queensland” as town and locality in Queensland, Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around East, Greenmount and Queensland.
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