Mount Samson

Mount Samson is a rural locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia.

Mount Samson is a rural locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Mount Samson had a population of 594 people.

Mt Samson was occupied by the indigenous people who named it Buran (Boorun), which means wind.The suburb takes its name from the reasonably dominant Mount Samson which is part of the D'Aguilar Range.

Samson Creek Provisional School opened on 9 August 1880. On 1 Oct 1909 it became Samson Creek State School. In 1925 the school was moved and renamed Mount Samson State School.Mt Samson was connected to Brisbane by a train service from 1919 to 1955. The station was sited on land adjoining the current location of Samsonvale Hall.

An annual music festival, Red Deer Festival, was held in Mount Samson from 2009 to 2017.In the 2011 census Mount Samson had a population of 566 people.

Mount Samson has a sub-tropical climate with very hot humid summers and mild, dry, sunny winters. Most rain falls during the height of summer, between November and February. Whilst summer maximum average temperatures generally linger around 30C, the summer months, like most of South East Queensland have some extremely hot days, sometimes as high as 40C.