The North Island Main Trunk railway runs through the town, as did State Highway 1 until opening of part of the Waikato Expressway in 2013.

[19] Taupō Pumice Alluvium (Q1a) was deposited on the Hinuera Formation (Q2a) until about 15,000 years ago.

[21] The low ridge between the Waikato and Waipā rivers is made of Walton Subgroup (eQa – pumiceous fine-grained sand and silt with interbedded peat, pumiceous gravelly sand, diatomaceous mud, and non-welded ignimbrite and tephra), covered in places by Piako Subgroup (1Qa – Late Pleistocene, mainly locally derived, stream and coastal alluvium, and minor fans, with up to 20 m (66 ft) of unconsolidated to very soft, thinly to thickly bedded, yellow-grey to orange-brown, pumiceous mud, silt, sandy mud and gravel, with muddy peat in some valleys).

[21] Ngāti Hauā had a pā named Horotiu near Cambridge[22] and they also had land in this area.

[26] The 2012 report on the school said, "the vast majority of students are achieving at or above National Standards" and noted it was in a Decile 3 area.

[33] Horotiu still has AFFCO’s head office[34] and its largest beef processing plant.

[35] The parent company, Talley's, opened a Waikato Dairy Co dried milk plant on the same site in August 2018.

[40][41] Northgate business park, between Horotiu and Te Rapa, covers 109 ha (270 acres)[30] and opened in 2013.

[43] By 1904 the area was recognised as a source of gravel[44] and pits were established by 1907,[45] especially on the east bank,[46] and continue to produce aggregates and take in clean fill.

It had been started in October 1985 on a 95 ha (230 acres) sand pit (worked from about 1970 to 2000) and was replaced by Hampton Downs.

Te Awa Lakes is a 100 ha (250 acres) site south east of Horotiu, beside the Waikato River.

[50] An August 2023 City council meeting had a report that Te Awa Lakes could be the northern terminal of a bus rapid transit line to the airport.

It was designed by Toogood and Jones, of Auckland, for £7900, paid by Waikato and Waipa County Councils,[54] though government contributed £1,728.

As part of the $200m road section,[61] it used 800 tonnes of steel, including 56-tonne girders, resting on 4 x V-shaped piers,[62] which allowed the main span to be reduced about 20m to 55 m (180 ft).

[62] Annual average daily traffic flows 3.46 km south of Gordonton Rd Overbridge were -[64][65]