The Matatoki Stream runs from the Coromandel Range through the area to join the Waihou River.

[1][2] The Kopu sawmill, a few kilometres north of Matatoki, closed at the end of June 2008, with the loss of 145 jobs.

[14] Heath and Irwin started building the Hikutaia to Paeroa section, to the south, in January 1887.

[19] The Minister of Public Works was able to travel by train from Hikutaia, through Matatoki, to Thames in July 1897.

[20] The Thames to Paeroa section of the line opened on Monday, 19 December 1898, with Matatoki as a flag station.

[21] Passenger trains were withdrawn on 28 March 1951 and freight on 22 February 1971, though Matatoki reopened for freight on 28 February 1974, closed again on 20 July 1980 and re-opened again on 30 November 1984, until June 28, 1991, the last day of commercial traffic on the Thames branch, which officially closed on March 29, 1995.