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Comer Street

17 reports at 11 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2023, the latest 2026. 17 separate days somebody filed something about it.

17 reports11 addresses17 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the namethe 2550th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Comer Street, 4 reports37 Comer Street, 2 reports33 Comer Street, 2 reports11A Comer Street, 2 reports7 Comer Street, 1 report5 Comer Street, 1 report39 Comer Street, 1 report22 Comer Street, 1 report20 Comer Street, 1 report1E Comer Street, 1 report11 Comer Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Comer Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Comer Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Comer Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Comer 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. 6 on the shelf; the 4 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 open map’s record.

Green Stream stream · 55 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

Park - General Request, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoTraffic Signals, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDamaged Street Light, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Halswell wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Comer Street?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Comer Street?

17 reports at 11 addresses, most often water & drains (7), roads & footpaths (5), trees & parks (3).

When was Comer Street first reported on?

2023, the record covers 17 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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