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Draper Street

97 reports at 26 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 86 separate days somebody filed something about it.

97 reports26 addresses86 days reported onfrom the air, then40 documents carry the namethe 815th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Draper Street, 16 reports20 Draper Street, 12 reports13B Draper Street, 10 reports15 Draper Street, 9 reports36 Draper Street, 7 reports29 Draper Street, 6 reports17 Draper Street, 4 reports9 Draper Street, 3 reports40 Draper Street, 3 reports18 Draper Street, 3 reports14 Draper Street, 3 reports11 Draper Street, 3 reports7 Draper Street, 2 reports33 Draper Street, 2 reports31 Draper Street, 2 reports30 Draper Street, 2 reports38 Draper Street, 1 report32 Draper Street, 1 report28 Draper Street, 1 report26 Draper Street, 1 report23 Draper Street, 1 report21 Draper Street, 1 report18A Draper Street, 1 report14A Draper Street, 1 report13 Draper Street, 1 report12 Draper Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Draper Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Draper Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Draper Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Draper 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. 40 on the shelf; the 1 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 open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 109 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Draper Street in 7 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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoLitter, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Draper Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Draper Street?

97 reports at 26 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (43), water & drains (18), graffiti & vandalism (11).

When was Draper Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 86 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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