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Tekapo Place

57 reports at 13 addresses in Opawa, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 50 separate days somebody filed something about it.

57 reports13 addresses50 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the namethe 1300th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

10 Tekapo Place, 17 reports14 Tekapo Place, 13 reports16 Tekapo Place, 7 reports9 Tekapo Place, 4 reports8 Tekapo Place, 3 reports4 Tekapo Place, 3 reports6 Tekapo Place, 2 reports2 Tekapo Place, 2 reports1 Tekapo Place, 2 reports5 Tekapo Place, 1 report18 Tekapo Place, 1 report17 Tekapo Place, 1 report11 Tekapo Place, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Tekapo Place from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Tekapo Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tekapo Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tekapo Place from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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 Tekapo Place?

In Opawa, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Tekapo Place?

57 reports at 13 addresses, most often trees & parks (35), graffiti & vandalism (8), roads & footpaths (7).

When was Tekapo Place first reported on?

2017, the record covers 50 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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