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Niagara Street

15 reports at 8 addresses in Wainoni, the first in 2018, the latest 2025. 15 separate days somebody filed something about it.

15 reports8 addresses15 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 2746th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

15 Niagara Street, 3 reports12 Niagara Street, 3 reports29 Niagara Street, 2 reports19 Niagara Street, 2 reports10 Niagara Street, 2 reports39 Niagara Street, 1 report36 Niagara Street, 1 report23 Niagara Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Niagara Street?

In Wainoni, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Niagara Street?

15 reports at 8 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (6), graffiti & vandalism (4), water & drains (3).

When was Niagara Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 15 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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