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Jacobs Street

29 reports at 13 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 28 separate days somebody filed something about it.

29 reports13 addresses28 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1953rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

50 Jacobs Street, 7 reports25 Jacobs Street, 7 reports48 Jacobs Street, 2 reports41 Jacobs Street, 2 reports31 Jacobs Street, 2 reports15 Jacobs Street, 2 reports49 Jacobs Street, 1 report45 Jacobs Street, 1 report38A Jacobs Street, 1 report34 Jacobs Street, 1 report33 Jacobs Street, 1 report26 Jacobs Street, 1 report1 Jacobs Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Jacobs Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Jacobs Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Jacobs Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Jacobs 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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Jacobs Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Jacobs Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Jacobs Street?

29 reports at 13 addresses, most often water & drains (8), trees & parks (8), rubbish & dumping (7).

When was Jacobs Street first reported on?

2022, the record covers 28 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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