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Christchurch

8 reports at 1 address in Halswell, the first in 2022, the latest 2024. 8 separate days somebody filed something about it.

8 reports1 address8 days reported onfrom the air, then44,579 documents carry the namethe 3501st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

8025 Christchurch, 8 reports

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

From the air, then

Christchurch from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Christchurch from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Christchurch from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Christchurch from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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. 44,579 on the shelf; the 12 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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Christchurch in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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 Christchurch?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Christchurch?

8 reports at 1 address, most often graffiti & vandalism (19), trees & parks (13), rubbish & dumping (5).

When was Christchurch first reported on?

2022, the record covers 8 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2024.

Every street the archive knows → · Halswell → · This street as a feed →