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Caspian Street

4 reports at 3 addresses in South New Brighton, the first in 2018, the latest 2024. 4 separate days somebody filed something about it.

4 reports3 addresses4 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 4456th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

21B Caspian Street, 2 reports21A Caspian Street, 1 report21 Caspian Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Caspian Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Caspian Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Caspian Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Caspian Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Caspian Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Caspian Street?

In South New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Caspian Street?

4 reports at 3 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (3), animals & pests (1).

When was Caspian Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 4 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2024.

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