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York Street

89 reports at 32 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 74 separate days somebody filed something about it.

89 reports32 addresses74 days reported onfrom the air, then154 documents carry the namethe 939th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3 York Street, 19 reports56 York Street, 10 reports29 York Street, 6 reports36B York Street, 5 reports6 York Street, 4 reports39A York Street, 3 reports35C York Street, 3 reports25 York Street, 3 reports20 York Street, 3 reports18 York Street, 3 reports10 York Street, 3 reports7 York Street, 2 reports45A York Street, 2 reports40 York Street, 2 reports35A York Street, 2 reports35 York Street, 2 reports14 York Street, 2 reports9 York Street, 1 report8 York Street, 1 report54 York Street, 1 report53 York Street, 1 report50 York Street, 1 report47 York Street, 1 report42 York Street, 1 report37 York Street, 1 report33 York Street, 1 report23 York Street, 1 report22 York Street, 1 report21 York Street, 1 report16 York Street, 1 report12 York Street, 1 report11 York Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

York Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
York Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
York 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. 154 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.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 16 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names York Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Pavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is York Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on York Street?

89 reports at 32 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (46), water & drains (12), roads & footpaths (11).

When was York Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 74 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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