The town is roughly in the centre of the locality. Amby Creek flows through the location from north to south, passing immediately to the east of the town. Amby Creek is eventually a tributary of the Maranoa River.[5]
The Warrego Highway passes through the locality from east to west, passing through the main street of the town. The Western railway line also passes through the locality from east to west, with two railway stations in the locality:
The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing and quarrying.[5] Amby is situated near lava flows from ancient volcanoes and local quarries extract basalt for use in road building, railway ballast, and a range of other construction uses.[7]
History
Amby State School, circa 1921
Amby takes its name from the Amby Creek; Amby is possibly a word meaning "little girl" in Kogai dialect of Mandandanji language.[8]
The Amby Downs pastoral station is believed to have been established before 1860.[9]
The Western railway line was surveyed in 1879. The railway was not originally intended to pass through this area, but flooding resulted in a change of plans to put a long trestle bridge over Amby Creek. Amby railway station was built in 1884 and a goods yard established in 1885, with passenger services commencing in 1890.[7]
A postal receiving office opened at Amby around 1883, and became a post office around 1900; it continues to operate out of the Amby Store.[10][2]
There are no schools in Amby. The nearest government school is Mitchell State School in neighbouring Mitchell to the west which provide primary education and secondary education to Year 10. For secondary education to Year 12, the nearest government school is Roma State College in Roma to the east, but it is sufficiently distant that distance education and boarding school are other options.[5]
Amenities
Signage for Amby branch of the Queensland Country Women's association, Booringa Shire Hall, 2019
^ abQueensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN978-1-921171-26-0
^Blake, Thom. "St Barnabas' Anglican Church". Queensland religious places database. Archived from the original on 23 October 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.