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Devon Street

145 reports at 33 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 120 separate days somebody filed something about it.

145 reports33 addresses120 days reported onfrom the air, then165 documents carry the namethe 583rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

56 Devon Street, 22 reports63E Devon Street, 16 reports34 Devon Street, 11 reports13B Devon Street, 8 reports32 Devon Street, 6 reports29 Devon Street, 5 reports23A Devon Street, 5 reports18 Devon Street, 5 reports9 Devon Street, 4 reports50 Devon Street, 4 reports42A Devon Street, 4 reports38A Devon Street, 4 reports26 Devon Street, 4 reports22 Devon Street, 4 reports2 Devon Street, 4 reports13A Devon Street, 4 reports7 Devon Street, 3 reports5 Devon Street, 3 reports44 Devon Street, 3 reports27 Devon Street, 3 reports24 Devon Street, 3 reports23 Devon Street, 3 reports13C Devon Street, 3 reports11 Devon Street, 3 reports17 Devon Street, 2 reports16 Devon Street, 2 reports48 Devon Street, 1 report40 Devon Street, 1 report4 Devon Street, 1 report36-34 Devon Street, 1 report30 Devon Street, 1 report17-21 Devon Street, 1 report14 Devon Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Devon Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Devon Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Devon 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. 165 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 · 65 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Devon Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Devon Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Devon Street?

145 reports at 33 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (47), water & drains (36), rubbish & dumping (29).

When was Devon Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 120 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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