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Cobra Street

61 reports at 30 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 59 separate days somebody filed something about it.

61 reports30 addresses59 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1122nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

56 Cobra Street, 8 reports3 Cobra Street, 5 reports6A Cobra Street, 4 reports24A Cobra Street, 4 reports60 Cobra Street, 3 reports54 Cobra Street, 3 reports15 Cobra Street, 3 reports13 Cobra Street, 3 reports7 Cobra Street, 2 reports65 Cobra Street, 2 reports6 Cobra Street, 2 reports58 Cobra Street, 2 reports53 Cobra Street, 2 reports14 Cobra Street, 2 reports68 Cobra Street, 1 report65A Cobra Street, 1 report61 Cobra Street, 1 report51 Cobra Street, 1 report47 Cobra Street, 1 report45 Cobra Street, 1 report39 Cobra Street, 1 report36 Cobra Street, 1 report32 Cobra Street, 1 report31 Cobra Street, 1 report29 Cobra Street, 1 report28 Cobra Street, 1 report23 Cobra Street, 1 report20 Cobra Street, 1 report18 Cobra Street, 1 report12 Cobra Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cobra Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Cobra Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cobra Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cobra Street 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.

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 Cobra Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cobra Street?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cobra Street?

61 reports at 30 addresses, most often water & drains (31), trees & parks (12), rubbish & dumping (10).

When was Cobra Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 59 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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