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Elm Grove

16 reports at 9 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2017, the latest 2025. 16 separate days somebody filed something about it.

16 reports9 addresses16 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2636th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

22 Elm Grove, 4 reports11 Elm Grove, 4 reports26 Elm Grove, 2 reports7-11 Elm Grove, 1 report30 Elm Grove, 1 report29 Elm Grove, 1 report25 Elm Grove, 1 report20 Elm Grove, 1 report15 Elm Grove, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Elm Grove from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Elm Grove from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Elm Grove from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Elm Grove 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.

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 Elm Grove?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Elm Grove?

16 reports at 9 addresses, most often water & drains (6), rubbish & dumping (3), roads & footpaths (3).

When was Elm Grove first reported on?

2017, the record covers 16 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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