Tern Street
27 reports at 13 addresses in Southshore, the first in 2017, the latest 2025. 27 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Tern Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Southshore.
From the air, then
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
- 5 Tern Street, 4 reports
- 9E Tern Street, 3 reports
- 6 Tern Street, 3 reports
- 2 Tern Street, 3 reports
- 11 Tern Street, 3 reports
- 1 Tern Street, 3 reports
- 4 Tern Street, 2 reports
- 7B Tern Street, 1 report
- 3 Tern Street, 1 report
- 18 Tern Street, 1 report
- 16 Tern Street, 1 report
- 15F Tern Street, 1 report
- 15A Tern Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 9 reports
- Trees & parks, 7 reports
- Water & drains, 3 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 3 reports
- Everything else, 3 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 2 reports
- 2020, 1 report
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 3 reports
- 2023, 7 reports
- 2024, 5 reports
- 2025, 6 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 12 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:
- SOCIAL AND GENERAL (Otago Daily Times, 18 June 1880)
· Papers Past,
…s thought not perfectly sane he is altogether a valuable importation we learn from the western star that a man named potts was drowned near the new river on may 27 he was travelling in a twohorse dray…
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 14 May 1898)
· Papers Past,
…8 pm object to establish the christian social union in christchurch f dunnage hon sec pro tern st michael day school headmistress hiss hookham 8a nz the next term will begin on tuesday mh may r jho fe…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Evening Post, 06 June 1935)
· Papers Past,
…n w jg as new throughout forced to sell with oilverstone auction mart full of tj ree p at tern stories news advice advertisers jt lighted and central heated also rorf reasonable nurse begley tel 50-69…
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 open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Tern Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Pavement - General, 6 Tern Street,
- Pavement - General, 5 Tern Street,
- Park - General Request, 2 Tern St,
- Pavement - General, 5 Tern Street,
- Facility - General Request, 6 Tern Street,
- Facility - General Request, 2 Tern Street,
- Park - General Request, 15F Tern Street,
- Park - General Request, 3 Tern Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 9E Tern Street,
- Park - General Request, 5 Tern Street,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Tern Street,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 15A Tern Street,
- Damaged Road, 11 Tern Street,
- Hazard, vehicle, 1 Tern Street,
- Damaged Road, 11 Tern Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Southshore, Christchurch, New Zealand.
27 reports at 13 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (9), trees & parks (7), water & drains (3).
2017, the record covers 27 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
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