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Johnson Street

75 reports at 11 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 56 separate days somebody filed something about it.

75 reports11 addresses56 days reported onfrom the air, then34 documents carry the namethe 1185th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

10 Johnson Street, 35 reports17A Johnson Street, 15 reports13 Johnson Street, 5 reports11–13 Johnson Street, 5 reports13A Johnson Street, 4 reports12 Johnson Street, 3 reports17B Johnson Street, 2 reports11A Johnson Street, 2 reports11 Johnson Street, 2 reports9 Johnson Street, 1 report17 Johnson Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Johnson Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Johnson Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Johnson 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. 34 on the shelf; the 6 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 · 86 m away

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 photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, 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 Johnson Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Johnson Street?

75 reports at 11 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (42), rubbish & dumping (16), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Johnson Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 56 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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