Burgess Street
15 reports at 6 addresses in Sumner, the first in 2016, the latest 2025. 14 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 Burgess Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sumner.
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 Burgess Street, 8 reports
- 6 Burgess Street, 2 reports
- 3 Burgess Street, 2 reports
- 8 Burgess Street, 1 report
- 2 Burgess Street, 1 report
- 1–9 Burgess Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 10 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 1 report
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 6 reports
- 2023, 3 reports
- 2024, 2 reports
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 5 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 30 June 1917)
· Papers Past,
…ga ni upton m a 34406 mrs n lewis 185 karori-road wgtn s 15fch june burgess e e 33299 r h burgess staveley f moore w e 36467mr5a bmoore ashburton m 1 16th june hancock e t 3432 t w hock paterangi b sa…
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.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1–9 Burgess St,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 2 Burgess Street,
- Water Leak, 5 Burgess Street,
- Water Leak, 6 Burgess Street,
- Water General, 5 Burgess Street,
- Water Leak, 5 Burgess Street,
- Water Leak, 5 Burgess Street,
- Pavement - General, 5 Burgess Street,
- Water General, 5 Burgess Street,
- Water General, 6 Burgess Street,
- Water General, 5 Burgess Street,
- Water Leak, 3 Burgess Street,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 8 Burgess Street,
- Water Leak, 3 Burgess Street,
- Roading/Streets, 5 Burgess St,
Questions, answered briefly
In Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.
15 reports at 6 addresses, most often water & drains (10), roads & footpaths (2), graffiti & vandalism (2).
2016, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
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