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Averill Street

108 reports at 23 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 87 separate days somebody filed something about it.

108 reports23 addresses87 days reported onfrom the air, then38 documents carry the namethe 801st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

59 Averill Street, 36 reports1 Averill Street, 9 reports7 Averill Street, 8 reports16 Averill Street, 8 reports57-59 Averill Street, 6 reports56 Averill Street, 6 reports57 Averill Street, 5 reports21 Averill Street, 4 reports43 Averill Street, 3 reports1A Averill Street, 3 reports47 Averill Street, 2 reports46 Averill Street, 2 reports39 Averill Street, 2 reports34 Averill Street, 2 reports20 Averill Street, 2 reports2 Averill Street, 2 reports11 Averill Street, 2 reports9 Averill Street, 1 report58 Averill Street, 1 report45 Averill Street, 1 report27 Averill Street, 1 report17 Averill Street, 1 report12 Averill Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Averill Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Averill Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Averill 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. 38 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Dudley Creek stream · 21 m away Saint Albans Creek stream · 90 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Averill Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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

Road Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Averill Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Averill Street?

108 reports at 23 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (50), roads & footpaths (27), rubbish & dumping (17).

When was Averill Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 87 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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