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Thornton Street

46 reports at 21 addresses in Mairehau, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 44 separate days somebody filed something about it.

46 reports21 addresses44 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 1424th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

22 Thornton Street, 6 reports5 Thornton Street, 5 reports25 Thornton Street, 5 reports37 Thornton Street, 3 reports21 Thornton Street, 3 reports15 Thornton Street, 3 reports9 Thornton Street, 2 reports7 Thornton Street, 2 reports24 Thornton Street, 2 reports18 Thornton Street, 2 reports14 Thornton Street, 2 reports11 Thornton Street, 2 reports5-39 Thornton Street, 1 report40 Thornton Street, 1 report39 Thornton Street, 1 report32A Thornton Street, 1 report31 Thornton Street, 1 report30 Thornton Street, 1 report29 Thornton Street, 1 report2 Thornton Street, 1 report19 Thornton Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Thornton Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thornton Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thornton 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. 14 on the shelf; the 11 earliest:

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.

Dudley Creek stream · 93 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Thornton Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAccessibility, a report photo more photographs
on the Mairehau wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Thornton Street?

In Mairehau, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Thornton Street?

46 reports at 21 addresses, most often water & drains (13), trees & parks (12), graffiti & vandalism (7).

When was Thornton Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 44 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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