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Mount Byron is a rural locality and a mountain in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia.The rugged terrain of the D'Aguilar Range in the east is protected within the D'Aguilar National Park. Mount Byron reaches elevations greater than 600 m above sea level. Lower elevations along Byron Creek, a tributary of the Stanley River, have been cleared of vegetation.HistoryThe locality takes its name from the mountain. Brown & Broad operated a timber sawmill at Mount Byron around 1912. By 1923 Raymond & Hossack were also operating a timber mill in the area. Mining operations commenced in 1918. Mount Byron State School opened on 29 May 1919 and closed on 17 January 1930. A large bushfire occurred in October 1926.

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