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Buffon Street

105 reports at 33 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 94 separate days somebody filed something about it.

105 reports33 addresses94 days reported onfrom the air, then16 documents carry the namethe 744th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

14 Buffon Street, 12 reports25 Buffon Street, 9 reports27 Buffon Street, 7 reports10 Buffon Street, 7 reports48 Buffon Street, 6 reports30 Buffon Street, 6 reports21 Buffon Street, 5 reports11 Buffon Street, 5 reports7 Buffon Street, 4 reports7–15 Buffon Street, 3 reports46 Buffon Street, 3 reports39 Buffon Street, 3 reports35 Buffon Street, 3 reports32A Buffon Street, 3 reports32 Buffon Street, 3 reports23 Buffon Street, 3 reports10–16 Buffon Street, 3 reports40 Buffon Street, 2 reports16a Buffon Street, 2 reports16 Buffon Street, 2 reports15 Buffon Street, 2 reports7D Buffon Street, 1 report7-15 Buffon Street, 1 report6 Buffon Street, 1 report43 Buffon Street, 1 report31 Buffon Street, 1 report24A Buffon Street, 1 report24 Buffon Street, 1 report20 Buffon Street, 1 report2/25 Buffon Street, 1 report19 Buffon Street, 1 report18 Buffon Street, 1 report15-25 Buffon Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Buffon Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Buffon Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Buffon 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. 16 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Buffon Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Buffon Street?

105 reports at 33 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (48), water & drains (25), roads & footpaths (10).

When was Buffon Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 94 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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