[10] The street layout was shown on an 1865 plan of the military settlement,[12] just a year after the invasion of the Waikato and confiscation of the land.

In the 1940s Snake Gully accommodation camp had airmen billeted in huts beside the Waitewhiriwhiri Stream, where the Badminton Club now stands.

[20] Whitiora lies on the west bank of the Waikato River, just to the south of its confluence with the Waitewhiriwhiri Stream.

[22] A stretch of the Hamilton Town Belt runs through Whitiora, including Beetham, Edgecumbe and Willoughby Parks.

[23] It was planned as a continuous belt, but has gradually been eroded, beginning with the rugby ground in 1922,[24] which had previously been covered in gorse.

[26] Whitiora covers 0.77 km2 (0.30 sq mi) and has the Waitewhiriwhiri Stream as its northern and western boundary.

[30] It was built for 160,[31] but Hamilton was growing so fast that 3 extra rooms had to be added before opening, as too many children wanted to attend.

[37] The surface of Victoria Street was improved in 1914,[38] with gravel added in 1929[39] and asphalt being laid on roads and footpaths by 1935.

[40] There was a proposal to divert the main road from Victoria Street in 1930,[41] but it wasn't until the 1960s[42] that Ulster Street was extended to absorb Gurnell Avenue and form a 4-lane main road,[43] by putting Waitewhiriwhiri Stream in a culvert and filling the valley.

[44] A 2019 plan proposed to investigate restoring a link by putting a pedestrian and cycling tunnel parallel with the culvert.

[48] Provision was made to stop leachate reaching the stream and gas entering nearby properties, when the rugby training ground in Beetham Park was built in 2009.