Yamanto

Named after ‘Yamahnto Station', the cotton-growing property of George Challinor which was later associated with the Harding family, gave its name to the locality.  George Miles Challinor, who died in May 1888 after a sudden heart attack was born in Cheshire in 1832. He arrived in Brisbane on the ship the Fortitude in 1849 and was associated with his cousin Dr. Challinor who was a chemist in Ipswich. In the early days of the cotton trade Dr. and Mr. Challinor took up Yamahnto. In 1870, George Challinor had 50 acres of cotton growing on his property which was tended by two white men and four Polynesians.  John Hughes had 22 acres of cotton growing on the adjoining property.

Charles James Harding, senior partner of C. J. Harding and Walker died at his home in Quarry Street, Ipswich on 2 January 1928. The name of Harding was associated with the auctioneering and cattle trade in Ipswich for fifty years. Charles and his brother Silas were born at Yahmahnto, the home of their father, the late Mr. Elias Harding. In January 1907, the Commissioner of  Queensland Railways wrote to the Hon. Secretary for Railways advising that Elias Harding had objected to the railway station and receiving office on the Ipswich-Dugandan Line being named the Yahmahnto Station. He desired to retain the name Yahmahnto exclusively for his home and estate of several thousand acres near Ipswich which he had owned for over thirty years. The new proposal was to called the railway station and receiving office "Loamside".

Silas Harding was a keen horseman and became well-known as one of the best horse judges in Australia. He was an official at the Ipswich Amateur Turf Club. In January 1924, his property and surrounding farms at Yamahnto were badly damaged by a severe hailstorm.

When cotton growing declined in the area, it was replaced in importance by dairying and crop farming. In 1902, Thomas West when boring for water on a paddock near the Yamahnto railway station discovered a strata of kaolin or Chinese clay. It was considered that while not as hard, it was as good in quality and appearance as the kaolin at Dinmore.

The Yamahnto stopping place on the Dugandan Railway Line was relocated closer to Mr. West's place and in 1906 he was selected to run a postal office at Yamahnto. The West Brothers operated the Good Hope Colliery at Yamahnto. Thomas West and his son David William were both badly burnt when they were attempting to clean foul air from the workings with a fan and tubing. Gas came into contact with a light and an explosion occurred.

Over the years the spelling of this area/suburb has varied and included: Yahmahnto, Yamahnto, Yamhato, and  Yahmanto.

The City Heights Progress Association wrote to the Moreton Shire Council in October 1977 regarding the naming of the area adjacent to the Moreton Shire boundary near the Shire Office. They recommended that anglicising the spelling to "Yamanto" would assist in the acceptance of the name and advised that they had verbal acceptance of the spelling from the Queensland Place Names Board.