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Morris Street

26 reports at 16 addresses in Avonside, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 21 separate days somebody filed something about it.

26 reports16 addresses21 days reported onfrom the air, then21 documents carry the namethe 2248th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

10 Morris Street, 4 reports12A Morris Street, 3 reports68 Morris Street, 2 reports65 Morris Street, 2 reports46 Morris Street, 2 reports32 Morris Street, 2 reports11 Morris Street, 2 reports83 Morris Street, 1 report79 Morris Street, 1 report69 Morris Street, 1 report64 Morris Street, 1 report54 Morris Street, 1 report49 Morris Street, 1 report39 Morris Street, 1 report20 Morris Street, 1 report16 Morris Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Morris Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Morris Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Morris 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. 21 on the shelf; the 5 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 60 m away Avon Corridor 5 Rrz Land footbridge · 66 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Morris Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody 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.

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoParks, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoParks, a report photoParks, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photo more photographs
on the Avonside wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Morris Street?

In Avonside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Morris Street?

26 reports at 16 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (12), trees & parks (6), roads & footpaths (3).

When was Morris Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 21 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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