Opawa Road
233 reports at 65 addresses in Hillsborough, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 206 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 Opawa Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hillsborough.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- 153A Opawa Road, 25 reports
- 218 Opawa Road, 24 reports
- 288 Opawa Road, 15 reports
- 172 Opawa Road, 14 reports
- 220 Opawa Road, 11 reports
- 200 Opawa Road, 10 reports
- 158 Opawa Road, 9 reports
- 255 Opawa Road, 7 reports
- 254 Opawa Road, 7 reports
- 284 Opawa Road, 6 reports
- 185 Opawa Road, 6 reports
- 162 Opawa Road, 6 reports
- 157 Opawa Road, 5 reports
- 253 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 153 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 279 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 269 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 216 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 204 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 197 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 166 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 161 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 310 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 306 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 300 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 286 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 276A Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 270 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 267 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 232 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 227 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 226 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 222 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 201 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 168 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 167 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 163 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 155 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 308 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 306-308 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 294 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 292 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 274 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 273 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 268–282 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 266 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 265 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 262 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 257 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 254A Opawa Road, 1 report
- 252 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 251 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 241–253 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 239A Opawa Road, 1 report
- 235 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 233 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 232C Opawa Road, 1 report
- 230 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 228A Opawa Road, 1 report
- 228-254 Opawa Road, 1 report
and the other 5 the record names
- 218–226 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 206 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 170 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 164 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 159 Opawa Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 62 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 56 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 41 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 35 reports
- Trees & parks, 27 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 7 reports
- Everything else, 4 reports
- Animals & pests, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2015, 4 reports
- 2017, 5 reports
- 2018, 5 reports
- 2019, 9 reports
- 2020, 9 reports
- 2021, 3 reports
- 2022, 19 reports
- 2023, 32 reports
- 2024, 43 reports
- 2025, 39 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 152 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 19 February 1874)
· Papers Past,
…von district fined ss a w money two horses on tho ferry road fined os robert ball ono cow opawa road fined ss obstructing a thoboughiabe john brooks for obstructing the thoroughfare in lichfield stree…
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 01 April 1875)
· Papers Past,
…lnod 5a j a j ha��kina ono cow on a public road sproydon district flnod ss r ball ono cow opawa road flnod 5s j wm barringor two horson on a road in tho hoathooto diet not fined 5s j josoph tonby ono…
- EXTENSION OF GAS MAINS. (Star, 14 May 1879)
· Papers Past,
…yersarms 20 st albans lane beatson road to t wesleyan church 11 gasworks road gasworks to opawa road 13 gasworks road opawa road to innes brewery 7 60 opawa road to hon e richardson 18 im opawa road 3…
- ROAD BOARDS. (Star, 24 April 1880)
· Papers Past,
…at road and lowering mnrdon road j hut tho offer of hv charters to erect a gaslamp on iho opawa road bo accepted tho report as a wholo wus adopted tho following correspondence was rend and dealt with…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The businesses on it, 5
Premises whose address in the directory is Opawa Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
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 Opawa Road in 14 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 6 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Opawa Road & State Highway 76, 38 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 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 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 08 November 1870) · Star,
- Local and General. (Star, 11 January 1872) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 29 April 1873) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 15 November 1873) · Star,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 21 October 1874) · Star,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Timaru Herald, 09 February 1876) · Timaru Herald,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Timaru Herald, 10 February 1876) · Timaru Herald,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 05 May 1883) · Star,
- Heathcote Road Board. (Star, 15 May 1883) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 20 March 1884) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 01 October 1884) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 7 (Star, 18 April 1887) · Star,
- MAGISTERIAL. (Star, 16 April 1889) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 22 April 1892) · Star,
- ROAD BOARDS. (Star, 18 April 1895) · Star,
- ROAD BOARD. (Star, 13 May 1898) · Star,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 22 November 1898) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 24 November 1898) · Star,
- A SERIOUS CASE. (Wanganui Herald, 14 November 1901) · Wanganui Herald,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 153A Opawa Road,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 288 Opawa Road,
- Poles and Signage - General, 200 Opawa Road,
- Pavement - Damaged, 251 Opawa Road,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 288 Opawa Road,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 153A Opawa Road,
- Flooding, 158 Opawa Rd,
- Poles and Signage - General, 255 Opawa Rd,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 288 Opawa Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 153 Opawa Rd,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 218 Opawa Rd,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 284 Opawa Road,
- Water Leak, 218 Opawa Rd,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 220 Opawa Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 172 Opawa Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Hillsborough, Christchurch, New Zealand.
233 reports at 65 addresses, most often water & drains (62), rubbish & dumping (56), graffiti & vandalism (41).
2015, the record covers 206 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Opawa Road and State Highway 76, 38 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 1 of them fatal.
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