Rogers Street

126 reports at 32 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 102 separate days somebody filed something about it.

126 reports 32 addresses102 days reported onfrom the air, then 21 documents carry the name 2 businessesthe 689th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Rogers Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Rogers Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Rogers 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

27 Rogers Street, 25 reports
52 Rogers Street, 13 reports
33 Rogers Street, 10 reports
32 Rogers Street, 9 reports
26 Rogers Street, 9 reports
21 Rogers Street, 7 reports
8 Rogers Street, 6 reports
35 Rogers Street, 5 reports
25 Rogers Street, 4 reports
24 Rogers Street, 4 reports
48 Rogers Street, 3 reports
16 Rogers Street, 3 reports
7 Rogers Street, 2 reports
50 Rogers Street, 2 reports
44 Rogers Street, 2 reports
43 Rogers Street, 2 reports
29 Rogers Street, 2 reports
27A Rogers Street, 2 reports
14A Rogers Street, 2 reports
12 Rogers Street, 2 reports
7–11 Rogers Street, 1 report
37 Rogers Street, 1 report
36 Rogers Street, 1 report
34 Rogers Street, 1 report
31 Rogers Street, 1 report
28 Rogers Street, 1 report
24A Rogers Street, 1 report
22 Rogers Street, 1 report
18 Rogers Street, 1 report
15 Rogers Street, 1 report
11 Rogers Street, 1 report
10 Rogers Street, 1 report

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 47 reports
Roads & footpaths, 27 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 22 reports
Everything else, 11 reports
Water & drains, 10 reports
Vehicles & parking, 6 reports
Trees & parks, 3 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2017, 5 reports
2018, 10 reports
2019, 7 reports
2020, 10 reports
2021, 9 reports
2022, 18 reports
2023, 28 reports
2024, 12 reports
2025, 21 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 21 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

EXHIBITORS' CONCERT COMMITTEE. (Star, 02 October 1895) · Papers Past, 2 Oct 1895
…ertificates e johnson standard iv little river a walker standard vii weit chri��teburoh e rogers standard vii rangiora w anderson standard vii rangiora m vangioni akaroa e donohue convent 1 school bar…
Fires in Christchurch. (Feilding Star, 03 February 1896) · Papers Past, 3 Feb 1896
…worth-street sydenham were burned down one was of six rooms owned and occupied by william rogers stoker at tbe gas works another of three rooms belonging to chas boder and occupied by geo mcnicol and…
Fires in Christchurch. (Colonist, 03 February 1896) · Papers Past, 3 Feb 1896
…orth street sydenham were burned down ooe was ot oii rooms ownetl and ocoupied by william rogers stoker fri the gasworks another of three rooms belonging to charles rodger and ocoupied by george monio…
Fires in Christchurch. (Nelson Evening Mail, 03 February 1896) · Papers Past, 3 Feb 1896
…worth-street sydenham were burned down one was of six rooms owned and occupied by william rogers stoker at the gasworks anoiher of three rooms belong ing to chas bodger and occupied by geo monicol j a…
TWO FIRES AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Grey River Argus, 03 February 1896) · Papers Past, 3 Feb 1896
…tages in woodsworth st sydenham were burned down one of blx rooms owned and occupied by w rogers stoker at the gasworks another of three rooms belonging to charles badger and occupied by george mnlool…
TABLE TALK (Otago Witness, 12 May 1909) · Papers Past, 12 May 1909
…addy a bel a mltauchlan anderson b moore pierpoint s eichmond w churchyard daveya munro g rogers stace e heid staveley etc etc mrs obierne nelson accompanied by her two sons messrs h and f obierne pas…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Rogers Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 119 m away Waltham Park ramp · 56 m away Waltham Park ramp · 61 m away Waltham Park ramp · 76 m away Waltham Park ramp · 89 m away Waltham Park set of steps · 91 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rogers Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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.