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Emerson Street

12 reports at 3 addresses in Addington, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 12 separate days somebody filed something about it.

12 reports3 addresses12 days reported onfrom the air, then32 documents carry the namethe 2958th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Emerson Street, 6 reports2 Emerson Street, 4 reports3 Emerson Street, 2 reports

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Emerson Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Addington.

From the air, then

Emerson Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Emerson Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Emerson Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Emerson Street 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 32 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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 open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 8 m away

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoWastewater/Stormwater, a report photoWastewater/Stormwater, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Emerson Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Emerson Street?

12 reports at 3 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (7), water & drains (2), roads & footpaths (1).

When was Emerson Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 12 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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