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Dawson Street

27 reports at 8 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 23 separate days somebody filed something about it.

27 reports8 addresses23 days reported onfrom the air, then27 documents carry the namethe 2153rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Dawson Street, 8 reports12 Dawson Street, 8 reports11 Dawson Street, 4 reports7–13 Dawson Street, 2 reports6 Dawson Street, 2 reports9 Dawson Street, 1 report7 Dawson Street, 1 report10 Dawson Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Dawson Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dawson Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dawson Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dawson 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. 27 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:

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.

Chesterfields shelter · 57 m away

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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAnimal - Domestic, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Supply, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Dawson Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Dawson Street?

27 reports at 8 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (10), graffiti & vandalism (10), water & drains (3).

When was Dawson Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 23 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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