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King Street

636 reports at 115 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 377 separate days somebody filed something about it.

636 reports115 addresses377 days reported onfrom the air, then823 documents carry the namethe 90th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

73 King Street, 44 reports88 King Street, 36 reports151 King Street, 32 reports109 King Street, 30 reports67 King Street, 29 reports146E King Street, 28 reports66A King Street, 27 reports150 King Street, 20 reports99 King Street, 18 reports75 King Street, 18 reports43 King Street, 16 reports33 King Street, 16 reports146 King Street, 16 reports154 King Street, 13 reports147B King Street, 12 reports86 King Street, 11 reports141A King Street, 8 reports138 King Street, 8 reports105 King Street, 8 reports83 King Street, 7 reports155 King Street, 7 reports90 King Street, 6 reports76B King Street, 6 reports42 King Street, 6 reports27A King Street, 6 reports163 King Street, 6 reports100 King Street, 6 reports96 King Street, 5 reports81 King Street, 5 reports66 King Street, 5 reports41A King Street, 5 reports40 King Street, 5 reports143 King Street, 5 reports130 King Street, 5 reports108 King Street, 5 reports79 King Street, 4 reports74 King Street, 4 reports65 King Street, 4 reports61 King Street, 4 reports55 King Street, 4 reports46A King Street, 4 reports32 King Street, 4 reports21 King Street, 4 reports173 King Street, 4 reports159A King Street, 4 reports147 King Street, 4 reports134 King Street, 4 reports121 King Street, 4 reports104 King Street, 4 reports93 King Street, 3 reports89 King Street, 3 reports85 King Street, 3 reports78 King Street, 3 reports31 King Street, 3 reports25 King Street, 3 reports162 King Street, 3 reports117 King Street, 3 reports114 King Street, 3 reports111 King Street, 3 reports91 King Street, 2 reports82 King Street, 2 reports70 King Street, 2 reports56 King Street, 2 reports41 King Street, 2 reports2/147a King Street, 2 reports18 King Street, 2 reports158 King Street, 2 reports14 King Street, 2 reports126F King Street, 2 reports125 King Street, 2 reports123 King Street, 2 reports122A King Street, 2 reports102 King Street, 2 reports97 King Street, 1 report92 King Street, 1 report80 King Street, 1 report77 King Street, 1 report76 King Street, 1 report64 King Street, 1 report62 King Street, 1 report58 King Street, 1 report57 King Street, 1 report51F King Street, 1 report50 King Street, 1 report49A King Street, 1 report49 King Street, 1 report46 King Street, 1 report37 King Street, 1 report30 King Street, 1 report3/76 King Street, 1 report29 King Street, 1 report24 King Street, 1 report23 King Street, 1 report20 King Street, 1 report173/1 King Street, 1 report162-132 King Street, 1 report160 King Street, 1 report157B King Street, 1 report157 King Street, 1 report153 King Street, 1 report143B King Street, 1 report141B King Street, 1 report141 King Street, 1 report135 King Street, 1 report131 King Street, 1 report127 King Street, 1 report120 King Street, 1 report12 King Street, 1 report118 King Street, 1 report110 King Street, 1 report108C King Street, 1 report107 King Street, 1 report106 King Street, 1 report103 King Street, 1 report10 King Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

and the other 55 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 823 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 9 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 136 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names King Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is King Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on King Street?

636 reports at 115 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (483), water & drains (45), roads & footpaths (35).

When was King Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 377 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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