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Butler Street

165 reports at 41 addresses in Opawa, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 139 separate days somebody filed something about it.

165 reports41 addresses139 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 494th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

50 Butler Street, 18 reports48 Butler Street, 15 reports8 Butler Street, 12 reports16A Butler Street, 11 reports40 Butler Street, 10 reports74 Butler Street, 7 reports62 Butler Street, 7 reports20 Butler Street, 7 reports70 Butler Street, 6 reports64 Butler Street, 6 reports44 Butler Street, 6 reports68 Butler Street, 5 reports58 Butler Street, 5 reports10A Butler Street, 5 reports54 Butler Street, 4 reports33 Butler Street, 4 reports41E Butler Street, 3 reports23 Butler Street, 3 reports72 Butler Street, 2 reports66 Butler Street, 2 reports56 Butler Street, 2 reports42 Butler Street, 2 reports34 Butler Street, 2 reports31 Butler Street, 2 reports21 Butler Street, 2 reports15 Butler Street, 2 reports84 Butler Street, 1 report82 Butler Street, 1 report80 Butler Street, 1 report6 Butler Street, 1 report43 Butler Street, 1 report41 Butler Street, 1 report35 Butler Street, 1 report30–40 Butler Street, 1 report29 Butler Street, 1 report26 Butler Street, 1 report25 Butler Street, 1 report19 Butler Street, 1 report18 Butler Street, 1 report16 Butler Street, 1 report13 Butler Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Butler Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Butler Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Butler 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 2 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 17 m away Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 20 m away Hansen Park footbridge · 73 m away Hansen Park ramp · 77 m away Hansen Park ramp · 77 m away Hansen Park ramp · 78 m away Hansen Park ramp · 78 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPublic Toilet, a report photoWater General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photo more photographs
on the Opawa wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Butler Street?

In Opawa, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Butler Street?

165 reports at 41 addresses, most often trees & parks (75), water & drains (45), graffiti & vandalism (16).

When was Butler Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 139 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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