[2] Apart from the protected area, the remainder of the locality is used for a mix of rural residential housing and grazing on native vegetation.

[6] Kuri'bigil'ba is the name of Cooroy Mountain in the dialect of the Kabi speaking aboriginal peoples of this area.

It is believed the mountain turned yellow once a year due to the flowering of an unknown tree.

[7] Most likely due to the endemic silky oak tree (Grevillea robusta) which has glabrous yellowish orange flowers from around September to November.

[8][9] Between 2008 and 2013, Cooroy Mountain (and the rest of the Shire of Noosa) was within Sunshine Coast Region, due to an enforced amalgamation of local government areas that was subsequently reversed.