Opawa Road

233 reports at 70 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 180 separate days somebody filed something about it.

233 reports 70 addresses180 days reported onfrom the air, then 152 documents carry the name 9 businessesthe 348th 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 Opawa Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Waltham.

From the air, then

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

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

Opawa 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

3 Opawa Road, 19 reports
1 Opawa Road, 14 reports
56F Opawa Road, 13 reports
54 Opawa Road, 11 reports
55 Opawa Road, 10 reports
25 Opawa Road, 9 reports
68 Opawa Road, 8 reports
11 Opawa Road, 8 reports
15 Opawa Road, 7 reports
58 Opawa Road, 6 reports
57B Opawa Road, 6 reports
33 Opawa Road, 6 reports
59 Opawa Road, 5 reports
23 Opawa Road, 5 reports
19 Opawa Road, 5 reports
53A Opawa Road, 4 reports
41A Opawa Road, 4 reports
25H Opawa Road, 4 reports
21 Opawa Road, 4 reports
79 Opawa Road, 3 reports
61 Opawa Road, 3 reports
57C Opawa Road, 3 reports
57 Opawa Road, 3 reports
53B Opawa Road, 3 reports
51 Opawa Road, 3 reports
5 Opawa Road, 3 reports
48 Opawa Road, 3 reports
24 Opawa Road, 3 reports
12 Opawa Road, 3 reports
67 Opawa Road, 2 reports
66 Opawa Road, 2 reports
64A Opawa Road, 2 reports
60A Opawa Road, 2 reports
60 Opawa Road, 2 reports
57D Opawa Road, 2 reports
55A Opawa Road, 2 reports
41D Opawa Road, 2 reports
39 Opawa Road, 2 reports
37 Opawa Road, 2 reports
34 Opawa Road, 2 reports
329 Opawa Road, 2 reports
17 Opawa Road, 2 reports
15A Opawa Road, 2 reports
69 Opawa Road, 1 report
65A Opawa Road, 1 report
65 Opawa Road, 1 report
64 Opawa Road, 1 report
6/25 Opawa Road, 1 report
6 Opawa Road, 1 report
58-56 Opawa Road, 1 report
56 Opawa Road, 1 report
53 Opawa Road, 1 report
51B Opawa Road, 1 report
5/124 Opawa Road, 1 report
49 Opawa Road, 1 report
46 Opawa Road, 1 report
45 Opawa Road, 1 report
44 Opawa Road, 1 report
41 Opawa Road, 1 report
4 Opawa Road, 1 report

and the other 10 the record names

39B Opawa Road, 1 report
38 Opawa Road, 1 report
2A Opawa Road, 1 report
29 Opawa Road, 1 report
26 Opawa Road, 1 report
25B Opawa Road, 1 report
25A Opawa Road, 1 report
22 Opawa Road, 1 report
2 Opawa Road, 1 report
14 Opawa Road, 1 report

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 126 reports
Water & drains, 32 reports
Roads & footpaths, 28 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 25 reports
Vehicles & parking, 8 reports
Trees & parks, 7 reports
Everything else, 6 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 3 reports
2017, 2 reports
2018, 7 reports
2019, 13 reports
2020, 8 reports
2021, 9 reports
2022, 18 reports
2023, 32 reports
2024, 35 reports
2025, 52 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, 19 Feb 1874
…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, 1 Apr 1875
…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, 14 May 1879
…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, 24 Apr 1880
…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, 9

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 open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 48 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Opawa Road in 48 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 11 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Opawa Road & State Highway 76, 38 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.