Ford Road

192 council reports at 40 addresses on Ford Road, Opawa, on record since August 2015.

192 reports 40 addresses169 days reported on1 on the register from the air, then 72 documents carry the namethe 373rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Ford Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Opawa.

From the air, then

Ford Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Ford Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Ford Road from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The numbered spots 40

46 Ford Road, 62 reports
15 Ford Road, 20 reports
44 Ford Road, 11 reports
77 Ford Road, 7 reports
2 Ford Road, 7 reports
9 Ford Road, 6 reports
75 Ford Road, 6 reports
40 Ford Road, 6 reports
73 Ford Road, 4 reports
59 Ford Road, 4 reports
57 Ford Road, 4 reports
42 Ford Road, 4 reports
20 Ford Road, 4 reports
17 Ford Road, 4 reports
5 Ford Road, 3 reports
38 Ford Road, 3 reports
75B Ford Road, 2 reports
71 Ford Road, 2 reports
47 Ford Road, 2 reports
34 Ford Road, 2 reports
32 Ford Road, 2 reports
30 Ford Road, 2 reports
29 Ford Road, 2 reports
28 Ford Road, 2 reports
19 Ford Road, 2 reports
16 Ford Road, 2 reports
12 Ford Road, 2 reports
11 Ford Road, 2 reports
10 Ford Road, 2 reports
61 Ford Road, 1 report
6 Ford Road, 1 report
51 Ford Road, 1 report
43 Ford Road, 1 report
31 Ford Road, 1 report
27 Ford Road, 1 report
26 Ford Road, 1 report
24 Ford Road, 1 report
22 Ford Road, 1 report
14 Ford Road, 1 report
11A Ford Road, 1 report

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 49 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 46 reports
Water & drains, 31 reports
Trees & parks, 31 reports
Roads & footpaths, 22 reports
Vehicles & parking, 7 reports
Everything else, 5 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 5 reports
2017, 10 reports
2018, 12 reports
2019, 16 reports
2020, 7 reports
2021, 7 reports
2022, 13 reports
2023, 38 reports
2024, 40 reports
2025, 26 reports

2026 was still in progress when this page was drawn and is left off.

On the register here

Dwelling and Setting, Fifield, 14 Hawford Road

On foot, The named houses walks this street.

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Ford Road, 72 in total; the 1 earliest:

HEATHCOTE. (Star, 09 February 1880) · Papers Past · 9 Feb 1880
…mended 1 that tho drainugo board be written to about the drain in smith road 2 to form bamford road from end of metiil to tho river 8 that dyer voad fcom end of metal to radomos bo ropaircd 4 thut the…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives a school this street as an address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School, Full Primary · decile 4 · EQI 463 · roll 376

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 4 m away Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 18 m away Heathcote Riverbank Reserve set of steps · 31 m away Heathcote Riverbank Reserve set of steps · 31 m away Risingholme Park ramp · 44 m away unnamed jetty · 47 m away Heathcote Riverbank Tr South footbridge · 50 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ford Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for Ford Road, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.