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]
^"Obituary". Darling Downs Gazette. Vol. XLVI, no. 11034. Queensland, Australia. 20 January 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 18 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.