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Burns Street

7 reports at 7 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 7 separate days somebody filed something about it.

7 reports7 addresses7 days reported onfrom the air, then36 documents carry the namethe 3769th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Burns Street, 1 report3-15 Burns Street, 1 report3 Burns Street, 1 report16 Burns Street, 1 report15 Burns Street, 1 report14 Burns Street, 1 report13C Burns Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Burns Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Burns Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Burns 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. 36 on the shelf; the 10 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 · 57 m away

As it was reported

Water Leak, a report photoRoad Blockage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Supply, a report photoWater Supply, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Burns Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Burns Street?

7 reports at 7 addresses, most often water & drains (5), rubbish & dumping (1), roads & footpaths (1).

When was Burns Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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