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Chrystal Street

40 reports at 27 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 36 separate days somebody filed something about it.

40 reports27 addresses36 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 1658th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

68 Chrystal Street, 6 reports59 Chrystal Street, 4 reports50 Chrystal Street, 2 reports36 Chrystal Street, 2 reports28 Chrystal Street, 2 reports26 Chrystal Street, 2 reports11 Chrystal Street, 2 reports9 Chrystal Street, 1 report78 Chrystal Street, 1 report77 Chrystal Street, 1 report71 Chrystal Street, 1 report66 Chrystal Street, 1 report62 Chrystal Street, 1 report60a Chrystal Street, 1 report6 Chrystal Street, 1 report51 Chrystal Street, 1 report49 Chrystal Street, 1 report37 Chrystal Street, 1 report35 Chrystal Street, 1 report30 Chrystal Street, 1 report24 Chrystal Street, 1 report23 Chrystal Street, 1 report20 Chrystal Street, 1 report2 Chrystal Street, 1 report19A Chrystal Street, 1 report19 Chrystal Street, 1 report12A Chrystal Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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 open map’s record.

Dudley Creek stream · 2 m away Dudley Creek Bypass drain · 104 m away Saint Albans Creek stream · 129 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Chrystal Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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 photoTrees - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Chrystal Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Chrystal Street?

40 reports at 27 addresses, most often water & drains (17), rubbish & dumping (8), trees & parks (8).

When was Chrystal Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 36 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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