Stapletons Road

212 reports at 83 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 159 separate days somebody filed something about it.

212 reports 83 addresses159 days reported onfrom the air, then 4 documents carry the namethe 413th 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 Stapletons Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Richmond.

From the air, then

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

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

Stapletons 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

and the other 23 the record names

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 51 reports
Roads & footpaths, 50 reports
Water & drains, 44 reports
Trees & parks, 44 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 20 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 1 report
2017, 1 report
2018, 30 reports
2019, 10 reports
2020, 19 reports
2021, 21 reports
2022, 28 reports
2023, 33 reports
2024, 20 reports
2025, 32 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 4 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:

Drawing of culverts, Stapletons Road · Canterbury Stories, 2 Sept 1915
TODAY'S LIST (Evening Post, 30 June 1941) · Papers Past, 30 Jun 1941
…v clarkson 48 mornington road dunedin f crawford alan ferguson lcpl mrs b l a crawford 53 stapletons road christchurch w curtin william john pte mrs n curtin co p 0 waitoa m daggar harold norman pte m…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 30 Nov 2000
…).Watson, Gregory Kim, unemployed, and Watson, Helena Joy, housewife, both formerly of 28 Stapletons Road, Shirley, Christchurch, now of 38 Moore Street, Kaiapoi.Brayshaw, Jeffrey Ross, casual worker,…

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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 1 m away Dudley Creek stream · 2 m away Shirley Stream stream · 6 m away Shirley Community Reserve set of steps · 146 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Stapletons Road in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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 the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.