The locality takes its name from the mountain which, in turn, took its name from a corrupted Aboriginal word
cowarie, which probably referred to Gowrie Creek, but which also referred to the
freshwater mussel. becoming Gowrie Mountain State School on 1 January 1909. It closed in 1967. It was on a site at 95 Gowrie Mountain School Road (), now within the present-day locality of
Kingsthorpe. == Demographics ==