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Butterfield Avenue

193 reports at 32 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 145 separate days somebody filed something about it.

193 reports32 addresses145 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 459th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

82 Butterfield Avenue, 25 reports30 Butterfield Avenue, 23 reports25 Butterfield Avenue, 17 reports78 Butterfield Avenue, 15 reports46 Butterfield Avenue, 12 reports31 Butterfield Avenue, 9 reports30A Butterfield Avenue, 9 reports76 Butterfield Avenue, 8 reports6 Butterfield Avenue, 8 reports22 Butterfield Avenue, 8 reports42 Butterfield Avenue, 7 reports96 Butterfield Avenue, 5 reports38 Butterfield Avenue, 5 reports36 Butterfield Avenue, 5 reports26 Butterfield Avenue, 5 reports92 Butterfield Avenue, 3 reports90 Butterfield Avenue, 3 reports86 Butterfield Avenue, 3 reports28 Butterfield Avenue, 3 reports2 Butterfield Avenue, 3 reports88 Butterfield Avenue, 2 reports24 Butterfield Avenue, 2 reports20 Butterfield Avenue, 2 reports16 Butterfield Avenue, 2 reports10 Butterfield Avenue, 2 reports74 Butterfield Avenue, 1 report72 Butterfield Avenue, 1 report64 Butterfield Avenue, 1 report44 Butterfield Avenue, 1 report40 Butterfield Avenue, 1 report34 Butterfield Avenue, 1 report26-28 Butterfield Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Butterfield Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Butterfield Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Butterfield Avenue 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 →

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Butterfield Avenue in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Butterfield Avenue?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Butterfield Avenue?

193 reports at 32 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (67), graffiti & vandalism (67), trees & parks (30).

When was Butterfield Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 145 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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