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Harvard Avenue

28 reports at 16 addresses in Wigram, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 27 separate days somebody filed something about it.

28 reports16 addresses27 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name4 businessesthe 2005th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

45 Harvard Avenue, 5 reports14 Harvard Avenue, 3 reports36 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports28 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports25 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports20 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports2 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports15 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports6 Harvard Avenue, 1 report55 Harvard Avenue, 1 report53-55 Harvard Avenue, 1 report53 Harvard Avenue, 1 report49 Harvard Avenue, 1 report32 Harvard Avenue, 1 report3 Harvard Avenue, 1 report11 Harvard Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Harvard Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Harvard Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Harvard Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Harvard Avenue 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 →

The businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Harvard Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Harvard Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Harvard Avenue?

In Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Harvard Avenue?

28 reports at 16 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (13), trees & parks (5), water & drains (4).

When was Harvard Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 27 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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