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Eureka Street

130 reports at 64 addresses in Aranui, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 91 separate days somebody filed something about it.

130 reports64 addresses91 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the namethe 764th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Eureka Street, 9 reports122 Eureka Street, 7 reports6 Eureka Street, 6 reports21 Eureka Street, 6 reports7 Eureka Street, 5 reports22 Eureka Street, 5 reports124R Eureka Street, 5 reports52 Eureka Street, 4 reports51 Eureka Street, 4 reports4 Eureka Street, 4 reports17 Eureka Street, 4 reports62 Eureka Street, 3 reports46 Eureka Street, 3 reports15 Eureka Street, 3 reports120 Eureka Street, 3 reports75 Eureka Street, 2 reports64 Eureka Street, 2 reports63 Eureka Street, 2 reports54 Eureka Street, 2 reports50 Eureka Street, 2 reports49 Eureka Street, 2 reports48 Eureka Street, 2 reports26 Eureka Street, 2 reports115 Eureka Street, 2 reports106A Eureka Street, 2 reports99 Eureka Street, 1 report97 Eureka Street, 1 report95 Eureka Street, 1 report9 Eureka Street, 1 report85 Eureka Street, 1 report84 Eureka Street, 1 report83 Eureka Street, 1 report81 Eureka Street, 1 report74 Eureka Street, 1 report73 Eureka Street, 1 report72 Eureka Street, 1 report70 Eureka Street, 1 report66 Eureka Street, 1 report65 Eureka Street, 1 report64E Eureka Street, 1 report61 Eureka Street, 1 report60 Eureka Street, 1 report59 Eureka Street, 1 report56 Eureka Street, 1 report55 Eureka Street, 1 report5 Eureka Street, 1 report4E Eureka Street, 1 report47 Eureka Street, 1 report45 Eureka Street, 1 report44 Eureka Street, 1 report36 Eureka Street, 1 report35 Eureka Street, 1 report34 Eureka Street, 1 report32 Eureka Street, 1 report31 Eureka Street, 1 report30 Eureka Street, 1 report24 Eureka Street, 1 report23 Eureka Street, 1 report2/9 Eureka Street, 1 report16 Eureka Street, 1 report118 Eureka Street, 1 report11 Eureka Street, 1 report102 Eureka Street, 1 report101 Eureka Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

and the other 4 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 86 m away Cockayne Reserve wetland · 114 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Eureka Street in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Aranui wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Eureka Street?

In Aranui, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Eureka Street?

130 reports at 64 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (94), graffiti & vandalism (16), roads & footpaths (10).

When was Eureka Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 91 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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