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Mary Street

29 reports at 20 addresses in PAPANUI, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 28 separate days somebody filed something about it.

29 reports20 addresses28 days reported onfrom the air, then94 documents carry the namethe 1948th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

57 Mary Street, 4 reports35 Mary Street, 3 reports64 Mary Street, 2 reports51B Mary Street, 2 reports4 Mary Street, 2 reports2 Mary Street, 2 reports9 Mary Street, 1 report82 Mary Street, 1 report73 Mary Street, 1 report66 Mary Street, 1 report65 Mary Street, 1 report52 Mary Street, 1 report5 Mary Street, 1 report47E Mary Street, 1 report40 Mary Street, 1 report30 Mary Street, 1 report3 Mary Street, 1 report29 Mary Street, 1 report23A Mary Street, 1 report12 Mary Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Mary Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mary Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mary Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mary 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. 94 on the shelf; the 3 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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Mary Street in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Mary Street?

In PAPANUI, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Mary Street?

29 reports at 20 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (12), water & drains (10), trees & parks (4).

When was Mary Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 28 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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