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Cross Street

454 reports at 25 addresses in Phillipstown, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 327 separate days somebody filed something about it.

454 reports25 addresses327 days reported onfrom the air, then58 documents carry the namethe 136th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Cross Street, 75 reports34 Cross Street, 65 reports14 Cross Street, 60 reports10 Cross Street, 36 reports11 Cross Street, 34 reports1 Cross Street, 33 reports32 Cross Street, 28 reports5 Cross Street, 20 reports28 Cross Street, 20 reports18 Cross Street, 14 reports27 Cross Street, 12 reports25 Cross Street, 9 reports21 Cross Street, 8 reports7-15 Cross Street, 6 reports24 Cross Street, 6 reports12 Cross Street, 5 reports26 Cross Street, 4 reports17 Cross Street, 4 reports9 Cross Street, 3 reports7 Cross Street, 3 reports1-3 Cross Street, 3 reports34-18 Cross Street, 2 reports15 Cross Street, 2 reports23 Cross Street, 1 report17-23 Cross Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cross Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cross Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cross Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cross 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. 58 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cross Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Phillipstown wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cross Street?

In Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cross Street?

454 reports at 25 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (347), graffiti & vandalism (52), roads & footpaths (26).

When was Cross Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 327 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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