Te Miro is an area in the Waipa District of the Waikato Region of the North Island of New Zealand.

[11] In the 1850s missionaries and farmers from Britain settled in the Te Miro area and introduced modern farming practices to local Maori, helping them set up two flour mills and importing grinding wheels from England and France.

During this time, wheat was a profitable crop, but when merchants in Auckland began purchasing cheaper grain from Australia the market went into decline.

In 1868, Daniel Thornton was the first settler to buy land near Te Miro,[11] and around 1894, his widow established a large residence at what is now known as Sanatorium Hill.

72 newly surveyed sections, ranging in size from 1 to 323 acres, were balloted to returning servicemen.

[16] The area shown as Te Miro when retrieved from Google maps at present includes a southern lobe that is usually referred to locally as Whitehall.

The remainder, excluding the Whitehall lobe and locally referred to as Te Miro, is about 27 square kilometres in size, approximately the same area as nearby Cambridge.

The most visible point in the Te Miro district is the extinct volcanic cone known as Ruru (37 47 45; 175 34 50), which is 482 metres high.

Land use is mainly pastoral and dairy farming, some areas of native bush and reserves, and some small blocks of Radiata pine forestry plantations.

There are three main rock types in the Te Miro area, which are Greywacke (sediments deposited on the ocean floor about 140 million years ago); Andesite (lava flow from volcanic cones such as Mt Ruru, which erupted 6.2 million years ago); and Ignimbrite (consolidated volcanic ash from the Mangakino caldera complex, from about 1 million years ago).

Te Miro's main sources of local employment and income today come from dairy and drystock farming.