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Montana Avenue

36 reports at 14 addresses in Ilam, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 34 separate days somebody filed something about it.

36 reports14 addresses34 days reported onfrom the air, then12 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 1717th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2A Montana Avenue, 7 reports25A Montana Avenue, 6 reports25 Montana Avenue, 5 reports16 Montana Avenue, 4 reports31 Montana Avenue, 3 reports27 Montana Avenue, 2 reports1b Montana Avenue, 2 reports6 Montana Avenue, 1 report4B Montana Avenue, 1 report2–8 Montana Avenue, 1 report25-27 Montana Avenue, 1 report20 Montana Avenue, 1 report14 Montana Avenue, 1 report12 Montana Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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 businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Montana Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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 Montana Avenue in 3 crashes 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 Montana Avenue?

In Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Montana Avenue?

36 reports at 14 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (15), rubbish & dumping (12), vehicles & parking (4).

When was Montana Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 34 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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