East Greenmount

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. It takes its name from the creek which flows through the locality and not from the locality of Emu Creek ( further north. Until 13 May 2005, the official name for the locality was Greenmount East.

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). 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.

Most-observed species

• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  475
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  453
• Noisy Miner

  Manorina melanocephala (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  385
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  376
• Galah

  Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  367
• Crested Pigeon

  Ocyphaps lophotes (Temminck, 1822) · Aves
  325
• Lewin's Honeyeater

  Meliphaga lewinii (Swainson, 1837) · Aves
  308
• Eastern Whipbird

  Psophodes olivaceus (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  306