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Wiggins Street

53 reports at 34 addresses in Sumner, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 48 separate days somebody filed something about it.

53 reports34 addresses48 days reported onfrom the air, then10 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 1341st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Wiggins Street, 3 reports81 Wiggins Street, 3 reports42 Wiggins Street, 3 reports30 Wiggins Street, 3 reports17A Wiggins Street, 3 reports73 Wiggins Street, 2 reports69 Wiggins Street, 2 reports56 Wiggins Street, 2 reports45 Wiggins Street, 2 reports33 Wiggins Street, 2 reports29D Wiggins Street, 2 reports19 Wiggins Street, 2 reports11 Wiggins Street, 2 reports1 Wiggins Street, 2 reports90 Wiggins Street, 1 report79 Wiggins Street, 1 report72 Wiggins Street, 1 report7 Wiggins Street, 1 report67 Wiggins Street, 1 report6 Wiggins Street, 1 report57 Wiggins Street, 1 report54 Wiggins Street, 1 report5 Wiggins Street, 1 report49 Wiggins Street, 1 report37A Wiggins Street, 1 report37 Wiggins Street, 1 report30F Wiggins Street, 1 report17B Wiggins Street, 1 report14 Wiggins Street, 1 report13B Wiggins Street, 1 report13A Wiggins Street, 1 report13 Wiggins Street, 1 report12 Wiggins Street, 1 report10 Wiggins Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wiggins Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Wiggins Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wiggins Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · 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. 10 on the shelf; the 9 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Wiggins Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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.

Matuku-takotako / Sumner Beach beach · 219 m away Heritage Trail set of steps · 47 m away Port Hills 11 Rrz Land shelter · 65 m away Port Hills 10 Rrz Land set of steps · 66 m away Port Hills 10 Rrz Land set of steps · 66 m away Port Hills 11 Rrz Land shelter · 87 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wiggins Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoPavement - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Sumner wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wiggins Street?

In Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wiggins Street?

53 reports at 34 addresses, most often water & drains (23), roads & footpaths (17), vehicles & parking (5).

When was Wiggins Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 48 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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