Culverden is a small town in the northern Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.

[3] The Health Department encouraged the Amuri County Council to install a water supply in Culverden as a result of a "slight epidemic" of hepatitis which was traced back to contaminated water.

A proposal to provide Culverden with a sewage scheme in 1983 was approved by the Amuri County Council.

There is a memorial in the Rutherford Reserve to Dr Charles Little who died in November 1918 from the Spanish Flu.

[4] When provincial government was abolished in 1876, Culverden became the main centre for the newly established Amuri County.

Counties were abolished in the 1989 local government reforms, and since then, Culverden has belonged to the Hurunui District.

[5] Culverden is described by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement and covers 1.04 km2 (0.40 sq mi).

[7] Amuri statistical area, which includes Culverden, Rotherham and Waiau, covers 1,835.61 km2 (708.73 sq mi).

It was earthquake damaged and the Hurunui District Council was looking at repairing and strengthening the building.

The Amuri Co-operating Church, formerly Saint Andrews Presbyterian Church, Culverden, It has a stained glass window entitled "Christ the Shepherd and Sheep Farmer", designed by Beverley Shore Bennett and executed by Roy Miller in 1973.

At the line's peak, when it was considered to be part of the Main North Line, multiple trains ran daily between Culverden and Christchurch, including the Culverden Express and a number of slower mixed trains that carried both freight and passengers.