Talk:Suburbs of Hamilton, New Zealand

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Is Clarkin the same as Fairfield? I redirected Clarkin to Fairfield. Please undo this if it is incorrect. -- Adabow (talk) 19:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Suburbs - should we follow the census boundaries?

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Is there a reason for the current list of suburbs? Many are very short stubs and their boundaries seem far from clear. Would it be better to use the suburbs as listed by StatsNZ (and also Hamilton roads map) under Waikato - Hamilton? They have mapped boundaries and census data, whereas some of the current list just have a road name. For example, St James Park seems to refer to an area around St James Drive, but I can find little information about either, which means such articles can never be much more than short stubs.

Another option could be to use the suburbs named on the LINZ 1:50,000 map. However, it spells Queenswood with an 's' (which few other sources do) and includes Deanwell, Fairfield, Fitzroy, Forest Lake and Harrowfield, which are parts of StatsNZ areas. In the case of Fairfield, in particular, the name is more commonly used than the Chartwell & Clarkin StatsNZ areas, which it shares with the area commonly known as Chartwell.

A solution could be to include this table in this article, modified to move the articles on Ashmore, St James Park, St Petersburg and Somerset Heights into the Huntington article, the Crawshaw and Thornton articles into Grandview Heights, Magellan Rise and Sylvester into Flagstaff and Callum Brae in with Rototuna. Any thoughts please?

Current list (47) StatsNZ map (44) LINZ map (41) – (including other areas)
Ashmore
Bader Bader (Fitzroy)
Beerescourt Beerescourt Beerescourt
Bryant
Brymer
Burbush Burbush
Callum Brae
Chartwell Chartwell Chartwell (Clarkin, Fairfield)
Chedworth Park Chedworth Chedworth (Porritt)
Clarkin
Claudelands Claudelands Claudelands
Crawshaw Crawshaw
Deanwell Deanwell (part of Melville)
Dinsdale Dinsdale North Dinsdale (N&S)
Dinsdale South
Enderley Enderley Enderley (Insoll)
Fairfield Fairfield (part of Chartwell & Clarkin)
Fairview Downs Fairview Downs Fairview Downs
Fitzroy Fitzroy (part of Bader)
Flagstaff Flagstaff Flagstaff (Magellan Rise, Sylvester)
Forest Lake Forest Lake (part of Maeroa)
Frankton Frankton Junction Frankton (Swarbrick)
Glenview Glenview Glenview
Grandview Heights Grandview Grandview Heights (Brymer, Crawshaw, Thornton)
Hamilton Central Hamilton Central Hamilton Central (Hamilton North, Whitiora)
Hamilton East Hamilton East Hamilton East (Naylor, Peachgrove)
Hamilton West Hamilton Lake Hamilton Lake
Hamilton North
Harrowfield Harrowfield (part of Queenswood)
Hillcrest Hillcrest West Hillcrest
Horsham Downs Rototuna North
Huntington Huntington Huntington (Ashmore, St James Park,

St Petersburg, Somerset Heights)

Insoll
Maeroa Maeroa Maeroa
Magellan Rise
Melville Melville Melville
Livingstone Nawton Nawton (Western Heights)
Naylor
Peachgrove
Peacocke Peacocke Peacockes
Porritt
Pukete Pukete Pukete (Pukete West)
Pukete West
Queenwood Queenwood Queenswood
Riverlea Riverlea Riverlea
Rotokauri Rotokauri Rotokauri
Rototuna Rototuna Rototuna (Callum Brae)
Ruakura (part of Newstead area)
St Andrews St Andrews (Bryant)
St James Park
St Petersburg
Silverdale Silverdale Silverdale
Somerset Heights
Stonebridge (meshblock 0978002 outside HCC)
Swarbrick
Sylvester
Temple View Temple View Temple View
Te Rapa Te Rapa Te Rapa
Te Rapa North Te Rapa Park
Thornton
University University
Western Heights Western Heights (part of Nawton)
Whitiora Whitiora (part of Hamilton Central)

Johnragla (talk) 09:41, 25 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your work showing the different ways of defining the suburbs. As I am not a Hamiltonian, I will not express my own opinion.-gadfium 07:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
Do other cities have any system? It seems from the second paragraaph of the Suburbs article that they don't, so maybe Hamilton suburbs have to be left in their current unsystematic state. Johnragla (talk) 07:36, 13 March 2020 (UTC)Reply