Ford Road
192 reports at 40 addresses in Opawa, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 169 separate days somebody filed something about it.
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
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
- 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
On the register
- Dwelling and Setting, Fifield, 14 Hawford Road
On foot, The named houses walks this street.
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 72 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:
- HEATHCOTE. (Star, 09 February 1880)
· Papers Past,
…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 the street as a school’s 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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Ford Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Timaru Herald, 20 August 1878) · Timaru Herald,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 05 April 1882) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 06 April 1882) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 13 April 1882) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 8 (Star, 05 March 1883) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 09 September 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 15 September 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 24 September 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 28 September 1885) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Ellesmere Guardian, 10 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 13 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 20 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 24 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 27 May 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- CYCLING. (Star, 16 November 1901) · Star,
- SPRING CREEK ROAD BOARD. (Marlborough Express, 05 June 1906) · Marlborough Express,
- THE MINISTER OF LANDS. (Star, 26 March 1908) · Star,
- MINISTERS AT BLENHEIM. (Poverty Bay Herald, 26 March 1908) · Poverty Bay Herald,
- THE MINISTER FOR LANDS IN MARLBOROUGH. (Nelson Evening Mail, 26 March 1908) · Nelson Evening Mail,
- PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS. (Marlborough Express, 31 August 1910) · Marlborough Express,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 46 Ford Road,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 46 Ford Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 75 Ford Rd,
- Flooding, 31 Ford Road,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 46 Ford Road,
- Poles and Signage - General, 46 Ford Road,
- Water Leak, 38 Ford Road,
- Water Leak, 40 Ford Rd,
- Water Leak, 34 Ford Rd,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 9 Ford Road,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 11 Ford Road,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 9 Ford Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 2 Ford Road,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 46 Ford Road,
- Water Leak, 34 Ford Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Opawa, Christchurch, New Zealand.
192 reports at 40 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (49), graffiti & vandalism (46), water & drains (31).
2015, the record covers 169 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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