Opawa Road
337 reports at 87 addresses in Opawa, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 258 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. 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
- 124 Opawa Road, 17 reports
- 147 Opawa Road, 15 reports
- 118 Opawa Road, 15 reports
- 97L Opawa Road, 14 reports
- 135 Opawa Road, 13 reports
- 150A Opawa Road, 12 reports
- 114 Opawa Road, 10 reports
- 76 Opawa Road, 9 reports
- 150 Opawa Road, 9 reports
- 122 Opawa Road, 9 reports
- 97D Opawa Road, 8 reports
- 92 Opawa Road, 8 reports
- 81 Opawa Road, 8 reports
- 126 Opawa Road, 8 reports
- 106 Opawa Road, 8 reports
- 134 Opawa Road, 7 reports
- 94 Opawa Road, 6 reports
- 151 Opawa Road, 6 reports
- 146A Opawa Road, 6 reports
- 68 Opawa Road, 5 reports
- 130 Opawa Road, 5 reports
- 99 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 5/79A Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 146 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 132A Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 116 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 113 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 108 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 103 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 100 Opawa Road, 4 reports
- 97E Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 95 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 89C Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 89 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 79 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 78 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 138 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 137 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 132 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 124A Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 121A Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 121 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 117 Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 113B Opawa Road, 3 reports
- 97C Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 93 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 86 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 80 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 5/124 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 149 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 148 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 141 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 131 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 123A Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 123 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 119 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 113A Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 112 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 111-119 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 111 Opawa Road, 2 reports
and the other 27 the record names
- 109 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 101 Opawa Road, 2 reports
- 90 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 89B Opawa Road, 1 report
- 88 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 87 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 84 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 83 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 5/132 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 153 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 146-144 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 144-146 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 142-144 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 140-142 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 140 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 136 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 133-135 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 133 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 132a Opawa Road, 1 report
- 132B Opawa Road, 1 report
- 129 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 127 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 124B Opawa Road, 1 report
- 120A Opawa Road, 1 report
- 116-120 Opawa Road, 1 report
- 113C Opawa Road, 1 report
- 104 Opawa Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 176 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 39 reports
- Water & drains, 38 reports
- Trees & parks, 37 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 34 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 11 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2016, 16 reports
- 2017, 12 reports
- 2018, 32 reports
- 2019, 38 reports
- 2020, 17 reports
- 2021, 10 reports
- 2022, 32 reports
- 2023, 46 reports
- 2024, 27 reports
- 2025, 75 reports
On the register
- Dwelling and Setting, Cardowan, 64 Opawa Road
- Dwelling and Setting, Former Calimo, 44 Opawa Road
- Dwelling and Setting, Roxburghe, 41D Opawa 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. 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, 7
Premises whose address in the directory is Opawa Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
Gelato LabIce cream · 5/132 Opawa Road, Opawa
Indian Heaven - OpawaRestaurants · 132a Opawa Road, Opawa
Noble MerchantDelis · 132 Opawa Road, Opawa
Opawa Bowling ClubSports centres · 81 Opawa Road
Opawa SeafoodFast food · 3/124 Opawa Road
Opawa SurgeryDoctors & clinics · 122 Opawa Road, Opawa
Saket Indian RestaurantRestaurants · 132A Opawa Road Opawa
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 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 5 seriously hurt.
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.
- THE OPAWA RAILWAY. (Timaru Herald, 05 July 1875) · Timaru Herald,
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 29 March 1877) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 05 January 1884) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 07 January 1884) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 15 September 1885) · Star,
- Mr Douglass at Opawa. (Star, 24 November 1893) · Star,
- HOMICIDE AT OPAWA. (Star, 22 January 1897) · Star,
- TRAGEDYAT OPAWA. (Nelson Evening Mail, 22 January 1897) · Nelson Evening Mail,
- CHRISTCHURCH SUPREME COURT. THE OPAWA MANSLAUGHTER CASE BREAKS DOWN. [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, THIS DAY. (Evening Post, 16 February 1897) · Evening Post,
- MARRIAGES. (Star, 21 January 1899) · Star,
- OPAWA ROAD. (Star, 12 February 1904) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 01 December 1904) · Star,
- PLANTATION ROAD AT OPAWA. NEAR CHRISTCHURCH. —Stuart, photo. (Otago Witness, 21 November 1906) · Otago Witness,
- DEATHS. (Star, 28 December 1907) · Star,
- DEATHS. (Star, 13 July 1909) · Star,
- MISS OPAWA" (Evening Post, 16 January 1922) · Evening Post,
- MISS OPAWA." (Hawera & Normanby Star, 19 January 1922) · Hawera & Normanby Star,
- MRS. JANE COCKING. (Ellesmere Guardian, 06 June 1933) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- FATAL COLLISION (Evening Post, 10 December 1938) · Evening Post,
- TEN INJURED (Evening Post, 05 February 1945) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 132a Opawa Road,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 149 Opawa Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 134 Opawa Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 134 Opawa Road,
- Hazard, vehicle, 126 Opawa Rd,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 76 Opawa Road,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 76 Opawa Road,
- Litter, 113A Opawa Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 117 Opawa Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 113A Opawa Rd,
- Water Leak, 137 Opawa Rd,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 122 Opawa Road,
- Water General, 122 Opawa Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 147 Opawa Road,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 76 Opawa Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Opawa, Christchurch, New Zealand.
337 reports at 87 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (176), roads & footpaths (39), water & drains (38).
2016, the record covers 258 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.
Dwelling and Setting, Cardowan, Dwelling and Setting, Former Calimo, Dwelling and Setting, Roxburghe.
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