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Compton Street

25 reports at 11 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 23 separate days somebody filed something about it.

25 reports11 addresses23 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 2189th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

24 Compton Street, 5 reports10 Compton Street, 4 reports9 Compton Street, 3 reports3 Compton Street, 3 reports6 Compton Street, 2 reports36 Compton Street, 2 reports26 Compton Street, 2 reports35 Compton Street, 1 report33 Compton Street, 1 report22 Compton Street, 1 report20 Compton Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Compton Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Compton Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Compton Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Compton Street?

25 reports at 11 addresses, most often water & drains (8), roads & footpaths (7), rubbish & dumping (5).

When was Compton Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 23 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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