# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -46.34561, 169.70937, nothing scheduled in the register here. A register listing is a lead to follow, not by itself a claim. Distances are to each place’s recorded pin, not its boundary. The nearest break GeoNet recorded sits 321.9km from this point, a M4.0 on 21 November 2025, 23 km deep, labelled "20 km east of Ashburton" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2025p876446)). none within five kilometres. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not where the shaking was felt; the whole catalogue is at [sequence](https://www.chch.live/sequence) and the story in plain language is [the earthquakes explainer](https://www.chch.live/how-nz-works/canterbury-earthquakes). The Crown’s 2011 classification left this point outside the residential red zone. The whole boundary is at [redzone](https://www.chch.live/redzone). The 2011 grading never reached this point, the categories ran over the flat residential land. The grades are at [technical-categories](https://www.chch.live/technical-categories). The nearest mapped fault trace sits 353.9km from this point, part of the Greendale Fault. A drawn trace is the record of where the ground broke or deformed, not a prediction for this address, the mapped faults are at [faults](https://www.chch.live/faults). No recorded dump under this point, the council’s landfill layer keeps the old tips on the books and this isn’t one. The ones that are, from 1880 on: [landfills](https://www.chch.live/landfills). No recorded flood patch reaches this point, the layer keeps the water it saw and never drew it here. The ground it did draw: [floods](https://www.chch.live/floods). ## The marae and the old grounds The nearest marae on the roll is [Ngāti Moki Marae](https://www.chch.live/marae/taumutu), wharenui Ngāti Moki, 342.4km from this point (Te Taumutu Rūnanga and the hapū Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki of Ngāi Tahu). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is **Waikākahi Pā**, Birdlings Flat, Te Roto o Wairewa, 362.7km away, the Ngāti Māmoe pā at Birdlings Flat where Makō, the ancestor Wairewa's whare is named for, first settled. The whole roll: [maraes](https://www.chch.live/maraes), a record of what the file says, not a claim on this point. No hazardous-activities listing reaches this point, the register keeps the parcels where contaminating work ran, and this isn’t one. The ones that are: [hazards](https://www.chch.live/hazards). No fill parcel reaches this point, the files keep the ground that was made, and this isn’t filed as made. The parcels that are: [fill](https://www.chch.live/fill). The rockfall survey’s nearest pin sits 369.9km from this point, a rock still in place. A pin is where the survey saw the rock, not a promise about the slope, the survey: [boulders](https://www.chch.live/boulders). ## The armour The nearest engineered defence sits 378.8km away, a rock anchor installed 2011. Nearly all are the emergency works the quake years left standing; the file’s condition rating is its own word, not a fresh inspection. The register: [defences](https://www.chch.live/defences). ## The canopy The nearest notable tree on the register is **Maiden's Gum** (*globulus*), 30 m tall, 1.57 m through, a crown 26.5 m across, carrying a district plan significant protection, on private land, 363.2km away. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands, not a fresh survey. The canopy: [trees](https://www.chch.live/trees). No scheduled place sits within 250m of this point. That is a statement about the register, not the ground, unscheduled does not mean unstoried, only that no listing has been made for it. ## How this answer is made The register this asks is the district-plan heritage schedule and the Heritage New Zealand list, scheduled places, not everything that stood here. If the record has this ground wrong, the corrections door is open: https://www.chch.live/corrections --- HTML: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-46.34561&lon=169.709372&radius=250 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-46.34561,169.709372,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-46.34561&lon=169.709372&radius=250