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Burke Street

57 reports at 21 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 45 separate days somebody filed something about it.

57 reports21 addresses45 days reported onfrom the air, then59 documents carry the namethe 1409th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

153 Burke Street, 7 reports105 Burke Street, 6 reports104 Burke Street, 5 reports108 Burke Street, 4 reports101B Burke Street, 4 reports101 Burke Street, 4 reports120 Burke Street, 3 reports115 Burke Street, 3 reports103 Burke Street, 3 reports102 Burke Street, 3 reports118B Burke Street, 2 reports118 Burke Street, 2 reports117 Burke Street, 2 reports110 Burke Street, 2 reports123 Burke Street, 1 report121 Burke Street, 1 report119 Burke Street, 1 report116 Burke Street, 1 report114 Burke Street, 1 report113 Burke Street, 1 report112 Burke Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Burke Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Burke Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Burke 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. 59 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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.

Jacksons Creek stream · 150 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Burke Street in 4 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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater General, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Burke Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Burke Street?

57 reports at 21 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (26), roads & footpaths (14), water & drains (8).

When was Burke Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 45 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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