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Muir Avenue

70 reports at 32 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 60 separate days somebody filed something about it.

70 reports32 addresses60 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1109th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

26B Muir Avenue, 7 reports60 Muir Avenue, 5 reports14 Muir Avenue, 5 reports46 Muir Avenue, 4 reports40 Muir Avenue, 4 reports37 Muir Avenue, 4 reports22 Muir Avenue, 4 reports8 Muir Avenue, 3 reports35 Muir Avenue, 3 reports70 Muir Avenue, 2 reports53 Muir Avenue, 2 reports39 Muir Avenue, 2 reports28 Muir Avenue, 2 reports25 Muir Avenue, 2 reports21 Muir Avenue, 2 reports19 Muir Avenue, 2 reports11 Muir Avenue, 2 reports88 Muir Avenue, 1 report78B Muir Avenue, 1 report76 Muir Avenue, 1 report72 Muir Avenue, 1 report67 Muir Avenue, 1 report62 Muir Avenue, 1 report61 Muir Avenue, 1 report55 Muir Avenue, 1 report50 Muir Avenue, 1 report43 Muir Avenue, 1 report18B Muir Avenue, 1 report18A Muir Avenue, 1 report18 Muir Avenue, 1 report17 Muir Avenue, 1 report15 Muir Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Muir Avenue from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Muir Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Muir Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Muir Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Muir Avenue 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

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Muir Avenue in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Muir Avenue?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Muir Avenue?

70 reports at 32 addresses, most often water & drains (33), roads & footpaths (14), trees & parks (12).

When was Muir Avenue first reported on?

2018, the record covers 60 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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