East Greenmount, Queensland
East Greenmount is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of East Greenmount had a population of 361 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 (), rising to 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