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Cameron Street

294 reports at 32 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 201 separate days somebody filed something about it.

294 reports32 addresses201 days reported onfrom the air, then105 documents carry the namethe 302nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5 Cameron Street, 66 reports22 Cameron Street, 28 reports1 Cameron Street, 24 reports20 Cameron Street, 23 reports24 Cameron Street, 22 reports2A Cameron Street, 14 reports3 Cameron Street, 13 reports9 Cameron Street, 12 reports6 Cameron Street, 12 reports18 Cameron Street, 12 reports18A Cameron Street, 8 reports15 Cameron Street, 8 reports11 Cameron Street, 7 reports30 Cameron Street, 6 reports19 Cameron Street, 6 reports19D Cameron Street, 4 reports4 Cameron Street, 3 reports26 Cameron Street, 3 reports13 Cameron Street, 3 reports7A Cameron Street, 2 reports7 Cameron Street, 2 reports36 Cameron Street, 2 reports32 Cameron Street, 2 reports22E Cameron Street, 2 reports17 Cameron Street, 2 reports10 Cameron Street, 2 reports6/9 Cameron Street, 1 report29 Cameron Street, 1 report28 Cameron Street, 1 report24-26 Cameron Street, 1 report2-26 Cameron Street, 1 report1/22 Cameron Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cameron Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cameron Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cameron 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. 105 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 1 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 15 m away Cameron Reserve road bridge · 21 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 46 m away Jacksons Creek footbridge · 50 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 98 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cameron Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoLitter, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cameron Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cameron Street?

294 reports at 32 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (134), trees & parks (62), graffiti & vandalism (48).

When was Cameron Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 201 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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