Maramarua settlement is in an SA1 statistical area which covers 29.28 km2 (11.31 sq mi).

[5] The Kōpako sub-bituminous open cast coal mine was sold by Solid Energy to Bathurst Resources and Talleys in 2016.

Stephen Allen, a lawyer and local body politician, died of a heart attack in 1964 and in the resulting crash, his housekeeper was also killed.

[9] Historian Michael King and his wife died when their car crashed into a tree in 2004.

[10] Publican Chris Bush was shot dead at the Red Fox Tavern in Maramarua on 24 October 1987, shortly before midnight, while he was having a drink with staff.

[11] Nearly thirty years later, in 2017, two men were charged with murder and aggravated robbery.

[12] Mark Joseph Hoggart and another accomplice, with name suppression, have been found guilty of the murder of Chris Bush, on 29 March 2021.