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Dix Street

8 reports at 7 addresses in Wigram, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 8 separate days somebody filed something about it.

8 reports7 addresses8 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 3605th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

15 Dix Street, 2 reports7 Dix Street, 1 report31 Dix Street, 1 report29 Dix Street, 1 report24A Dix Street, 1 report17 Dix Street, 1 report14 Dix Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Dix Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dix Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dix 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. 3 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Dix Street?

In Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Dix Street?

8 reports at 7 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (2), roads & footpaths (2), everything else (2).

When was Dix Street first reported on?

2022, the record covers 8 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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