Mount Warren Park is named after William Stanley Warren, one of the principal sugar planters in the Albert River district, who established the Noyea plantation in 1867 on land originally taken up by Gilbert Muir and Adam Black. An 1866 report in the Queensland Daily Guardian describes Warren's sugar crop on the river, and the suburb's name is said to come from a once-prominent mill named in his honour. Settlement here took place on Yugambeh land, and by the early 1900s the Herbst family had moved onto two of the area's properties, Ayton and Noyea, continuing the district's agricultural use well into the 20th century.

The suburb's residential character didn't begin until 1974, when the Mount Warren estate started around Rochester Drive. Development then moved south and west over roughly the next fifteen years, with Mount Warren Park primary school opening in 1981 and a second school, Windaroo, opening in the suburb's southern reaches in 1992, more than a decade later. That staged, directional growth over former plantation land means the suburb's termite risk isn't uniform: the original 1974-era core has had the longest time to develop any issues, while the Windaroo-area streets are a decade or more younger. All of it still sits on land that carried sugar cane for generations before any house was built.

For homeowners, that means a Mount Warren Park property's risk tracks fairly closely with how early it sat within that fifteen-year growth window: older streets near Rochester Drive warrant a more thorough look than the newer southern pockets near Windaroo.