# Okains Bay Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch

A cemetery of the city, lying in Okains Bay, the ground as the open map draws it.

Dated: 1869

Suburb: [Okains Bay](https://www.chch.live/okains-bay)

From the air, an aerial view of Okains Bay Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-okains-bay-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## The ground under it

- [On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground](https://www.chch.live/cultural), Ōkeina / Kawatea
- [Inside a kept landscape, Significant rural landscape](https://www.chch.live/landscape), the landscape schedule
- [The plan zones this ground Specific Purpose (Cemetery)](https://www.chch.live/zones), SPC
- [The nearest recorded shake: M3.7](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 9 September 2010 · 1.8 km from the pin · 1 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.705928&lon=173.047569&radius=250

## Around it

- [Okains Bay Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/facility/cemetery-75), the council’s own record of this ground, its point sits 43 m away
- [Okains Bay Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1096-okains-bay-reserve), community park · under 150 m
- [Le Bons Bay Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/le-bons-bay-cemetery), cemetery · 5.9 km
- [Akaroa French Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-french-cemetery), cemetery · 12.5 km
- [Akaroa Dissenters Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-dissenters-cemetery), cemetery · 14.0 km
- [Akaroa Anglican Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/akaroa-anglican-cemetery), cemetery · 14.0 km


## The reports nearby
1 report pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place.
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/7747906), [20 Chorlton Road, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/okains-bay/20-chorlton-road)

## Questions, answered briefly

**Where is Okains Bay Cemetery?**

In Okains Bay, Christchurch, the map draws its grounds as an outline, inside the city boundary.

**Does this page list who is buried there?**

No, the map records the ground, not the graves. Burial records live with the council’s cemetery search and the headstone transcriptions, both linked from the page.


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The ground is OpenStreetMap’s, a named node, way or relation tagged landuse=cemetery inside the city boundary (ODbL). The ground is the map’s; the graves are the council’s, the register of plots is their Green Assets layer (gmCemeteryPlot), names included only where the death is seventy years gone or more.
The page: https://www.chch.live/cemetery/okains-bay-cemetery
The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial