Lower Styx Road

113 reports at 45 addresses in Bottle Lake, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 94 separate days somebody filed something about it.

113 reports 45 addresses94 days reported onfrom the air, then 4 documents carry the namethe 739th 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 Lower Styx Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Bottle Lake.

From the air, then

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

Lower Styx Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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

Lower Styx 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 addresses on it

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 66 reports
Roads & footpaths, 26 reports
Water & drains, 6 reports
Everything else, 6 reports
Trees & parks, 4 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 4 reports
Vehicles & parking, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 5 reports
2017, 1 report
2018, 3 reports
2019, 4 reports
2020, 10 reports
2021, 6 reports
2022, 13 reports
2023, 7 reports
2024, 17 reports
2025, 34 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

SECOND LIST (Evening Post, 17 December 1941) · Papers Past, 17 Dec 1941
…ncis mortimer pte mr f m howell middleman f hudson willoughby richard pte mr j 1 h hudson lower styx road marshland christchurch f hughes william edward henry pte h jl lilley coopers creekoxford siste…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 15 January 1944) · Papers Past, 15 Jan 1944
…previously reported prisoners of warnow reported safe hudson willoughby r pte mr j hudson lower styx road marshland christchurch f o jones noel h pte mrs b b finlay 122 waterloo road lower hutt sister…
Justices of the Peace Appointed · New Zealand Gazette, 24 Feb 2005
…, Timothy Hamish, 24 Reynolds Valley Road, R.D. 1, Little River.Wills, Anthony Roger, 344 Lower Styx Road, Spencerville, Christchurch.Wilson, Gaylene Queenie, Otto Road, Ararimu R.D. 3, Drury.Wyatt, M…
TELECOM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT DESIGNATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 69XJ OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 2001 · New Zealand Gazette, 23 Nov 2011
…yn District 33B/66 Pt Rural Sections 3344 & 4041 TE10 Not statedSpencerville Exchange 382 Lower Styx Rd, Spencerville Christchurch City 33B/222 Lot 2 DP 19627 14 Telecommunication and radiocommunicati…

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Styx River stream · 5 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Lower Styx Road in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Lower Styx Road & Marshland Road, 30 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

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