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Ave

8 reports at 3 addresses in Bottle Lake, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 7 separate days somebody filed something about it.

8 reports3 addresses7 days reported onfrom the air, then1,408 documents carry the namethe 3640th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

12th Ave, 4 reports24th Ave, 2 reports13th Ave, 2 reports

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

From the air, then

Ave from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ave from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ave from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ave 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. 1,408 on the shelf; the 12 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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ave?

In Bottle Lake, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ave?

8 reports at 3 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (5), trees & parks (5), water & drains (2).

When was Ave first reported on?

2019, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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