The town takes its name from
The Summit railway station, which was so named because it was the highest point () on the
Southern railway line from
Warwick to
Wallangarra. The Summit State School opened on 29 August 1921. The Summit Methodist Church opened on Wednesday 18 August 1915. Following the amalgamation of the Methodist Church into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became The Summit Uniting Church. It closed on 18 November 2017. It was at 9 Church Road (). The church building is still extant, but has been converted into a house. On Sunday 28 November 1926, St John's Anglican Church was officially opened and dedicated by Reverend Canon
David Garland. The Seventh-Day Adventist Church opened in 1989. == Demographics ==