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Sioux Avenue

No council reports on record for Sioux Avenue, Hornby, but the street isn’t unknown to the archive: 2 places on the heritage register carry the name.

2 on the registerfrom the air, then3 documents carry the name

Where it runs

Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 4 and Setting: registerFormer RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 5 and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Sioux Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Hornby.

From the air, then

Sioux Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sioux Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sioux Avenue 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 →

On the register

On foot, The airfield walks this street.

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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Sioux Avenue in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Sioux Avenue & Springs Road, 30 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Sioux Avenue?

In Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What is on record for Sioux Avenue?

No council reports, but 2 heritage-register places carry the name.

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