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Smith Street

52 reports at 2 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 47 separate days somebody filed something about it.

52 reports2 addresses47 days reported onfrom the air, then258 documents carry the namethe 1354th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

141 Smith Street, 44 reports119 Smith Street, 8 reports

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

From the air, then

Smith Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Smith Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Smith Street 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. 258 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Linwood Pool set of steps · 25 m away Linwood Pool ramp · 27 m away Linwood Pool shelter · 34 m away Linwood Pool ramp · 38 m away Linwood Park footbridge · 126 m away

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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Smith Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Smith Street?

52 reports at 2 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (17), water & drains (9), rubbish & dumping (9).

When was Smith Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 47 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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