Flagstaff, Hamilton

The District Plan lists two middens in the Te Awa O Katapaki valley. Like most of western Waikato the land at Flagstaff was confiscated following the 1863 invasion of the Waikato. It was surveyed into 50-acre parcels as grants to militiamen of the Fourth Waikato Regiment. Roads Until Hamilton's suburbs extended to Flagstaff in the 1990s, the only roads through the area were Rototuna School Rd, River Rd and Sylvester Rd. River Road was shown on an 1865 map of the military settlements and extended form Hamilton to Ngāruawāhia by 1879. A request to improve Flagstaff Hill Rd was made in 1909 and it was inspected in 1910. Rototuna School Road was also on the 1865 map and was gravelled in 1909. In 1908 J. and C. Sylvester asked Kirikiriroa Road Board for a road and by 1917 the Board were planning to improve the road. == Geography ==

Southern Flagstaff is in the Te Awa O Katapaki stream valley, which has a catchment. It has short-finned eels, mosquitofish and common smelt. In 2013 fish passage was improved by a new culvert under River Rd. Flows from the urban area are attenuated by Lake Magellan. The north of Flagstaff is in the long southern branch of the Otama-ngenge stream valley. Giant kokopu live the stream. Glaisdale West lakes and wetland were built in 2015 to attenuate flows from the developed area and keep heavy metal run-off from vehicles out of Otama-ngenge stream. == Demographics ==

Flagstaff covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Flagstaff had a population of 12,777 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 2,949 people (30.0%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 6,879 people (116.6%) since the 2013 census. There were 6,168 males, 6,576 females and 30 people of other genders in 4,113 dwellings. 2.4% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age was 37.5 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 2,991 people (23.4%) aged under 15 years, 2,013 (15.8%) aged 15 to 29, 5,571 (43.6%) aged 30 to 64, and 2,199 (17.2%) aged 65 or older. ==Education==

Endeavour School and Te Ao Mārama School are coeducational contributing primary schools (years 1–6) with rolls of and students respectively as of Endeavour opened in 2015 and Te Ao Mārama opened in 2019. ==See also==