His son, Thomas Burr, a surveyor, accompanied Governor Grey on the expedition to Mount Gambier in 1844:[4]7 May 1844: At about 2pm we made the top of a range, the principal summit of which his Excellency has done me the honour to call after my father.

The Mount Burr range is about 1600 feet above the level of the sea...Also in the surveying party was artist George French Angas.

[5] In October 1965, when the first regional South Australian commercial television station, SES-8, located at Mount Gambier, was readying for transmission in the South-east, a tensioning cable on a 500 ft (150 m) transmitter mast broke, and the steel tower crashed to the ground.

[3] The town is named after a local mountain called Mount Burr, which it measures 240 metres (790 feet) tall and is an dormant volcano.

[8] The historic Mount Graham Homestead is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register,[9] as is the Noolook Bark Mill, which is within Mt Burr Forest.