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Ebony Street

12 reports at 7 addresses in Bishopdale, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 10 separate days somebody filed something about it.

12 reports7 addresses10 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 3187th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

34 Ebony Street, 3 reports14 Ebony Street, 3 reports23 Ebony Street, 2 reports31 Ebony Street, 1 report30 Ebony Street, 1 report27 Ebony Street, 1 report20 Ebony Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ebony Street?

In Bishopdale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ebony Street?

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

When was Ebony Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 10 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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