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Oakford Close

9 reports at 4 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 7 separate days somebody filed something about it.

9 reports4 addresses7 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 3745th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Oakford Close, 4 reports8 Oakford Close, 3 reports31 Oakford Close, 1 report22 Oakford Close, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Oakford Close from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Oakford Close from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Oakford Close 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.

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Oakford Close?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Oakford Close?

9 reports at 4 addresses, most often water & drains (8), rubbish & dumping (1).

When was Oakford Close first reported on?

2022, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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