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Humboldt Street

102 reports at 27 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 83 separate days somebody filed something about it.

102 reports27 addresses83 days reported onfrom the air, then10 documents carry the namethe 847th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3 Humboldt Street, 22 reports27 Humboldt Street, 11 reports11 Humboldt Street, 8 reports7 Humboldt Street, 6 reports31 Humboldt Street, 6 reports29 Humboldt Street, 5 reports14 Humboldt Street, 5 reports10 Humboldt Street, 5 reports5A Humboldt Street, 4 reports19 Humboldt Street, 4 reports21 Humboldt Street, 3 reports2B Humboldt Street, 2 reports2A Humboldt Street, 2 reports22 Humboldt Street, 2 reports2 Humboldt Street, 2 reports18A Humboldt Street, 2 reports17 Humboldt Street, 2 reports15 Humboldt Street, 2 reports8 Humboldt Street, 1 report5 Humboldt Street, 1 report26 Humboldt Street, 1 report22-2 Humboldt Street, 1 report21A Humboldt Street, 1 report19B Humboldt Street, 1 report15R Humboldt Street, 1 report14B Humboldt Street, 1 report12 Humboldt Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Humboldt Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Humboldt Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Humboldt 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.

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 · 17 m away Cameron Reserve road bridge · 42 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 61 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 91 m away Jacksons Creek footbridge · 94 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Humboldt 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoSediment - Construction, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Humboldt Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Humboldt Street?

102 reports at 27 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (66), trees & parks (11), roads & footpaths (10).

When was Humboldt Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 83 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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