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Grahams Road

74 reports at 29 addresses in Ilam, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 69 separate days somebody filed something about it.

74 reports29 addresses69 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the namethe 976th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

28 Grahams Road, 11 reports30 Grahams Road, 9 reports3 Grahams Road, 5 reports26 Grahams Road, 5 reports39 Grahams Road, 4 reports8 Grahams Road, 3 reports51 Grahams Road, 3 reports42 Grahams Road, 3 reports24 Grahams Road, 3 reports60 Grahams Road, 2 reports6 Grahams Road, 2 reports57 Grahams Road, 2 reports48 Grahams Road, 2 reports4 Grahams Road, 2 reports38 Grahams Road, 2 reports21 Grahams Road, 2 reports18 Grahams Road, 2 reports7 Grahams Road, 1 report5 Grahams Road, 1 report47 Grahams Road, 1 report43 Grahams Road, 1 report39A Grahams Road, 1 report36 Grahams Road, 1 report31 Grahams Road, 1 report29 Grahams Road, 1 report27 Grahams Road, 1 report25A Grahams Road, 1 report20 Grahams Road, 1 report11 Grahams Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Grahams Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Grahams Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Grahams Road 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.

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Grahams Road in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Grahams Road & Memorial Avenue, 79 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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 Grahams Road?

In Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Grahams Road?

74 reports at 29 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (22), graffiti & vandalism (15), rubbish & dumping (13).

When was Grahams Road first reported on?

2018, the record covers 69 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Grahams Road?

Grahams Road and Memorial Avenue, 79 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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