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Rutherford Street

374 reports at 77 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 279 separate days somebody filed something about it.

374 reports77 addresses279 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then21 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 176th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Rutherford Street, 44 reports80 Rutherford Street, 33 reports24B Rutherford Street, 26 reports35 Rutherford Street, 20 reports56 Rutherford Street, 15 reports23 Rutherford Street, 13 reports58 Rutherford Street, 12 reports81A Rutherford Street, 10 reports37 Rutherford Street, 10 reports11 Rutherford Street, 10 reports26 Rutherford Street, 9 reports100 Rutherford Street, 9 reports91 Rutherford Street, 8 reports76 Rutherford Street, 8 reports27 Rutherford Street, 7 reports24 Rutherford Street, 7 reports87 Rutherford Street, 6 reports81B Rutherford Street, 6 reports69 Rutherford Street, 6 reports22 Rutherford Street, 5 reports10 Rutherford Street, 5 reports63 Rutherford Street, 4 reports59 Rutherford Street, 4 reports41 Rutherford Street, 4 reports18 Rutherford Street, 4 reports16 Rutherford Street, 4 reports100E Rutherford Street, 4 reports93 Rutherford Street, 3 reports85B Rutherford Street, 3 reports83 Rutherford Street, 3 reports77 Rutherford Street, 3 reports56-48 Rutherford Street, 3 reports21 Rutherford Street, 3 reports20 Rutherford Street, 3 reports16-14 Rutherford Street, 3 reports81 Rutherford Street, 2 reports8 Rutherford Street, 2 reports73 Rutherford Street, 2 reports71A Rutherford Street, 2 reports7 Rutherford Street, 2 reports65A Rutherford Street, 2 reports65 Rutherford Street, 2 reports55 Rutherford Street, 2 reports44 Rutherford Street, 2 reports3 Rutherford Street, 2 reports17A Rutherford Street, 2 reports17 Rutherford Street, 2 reports15 Rutherford Street, 2 reports10A Rutherford Street, 2 reports109 Rutherford Street, 2 reports97 Rutherford Street, 1 report91-117 Rutherford Street, 1 report9 Rutherford Street, 1 report80b Rutherford Street, 1 report78 Rutherford Street, 1 report74 Rutherford Street, 1 report72 Rutherford Street, 1 report70 Rutherford Street, 1 report67 Rutherford Street, 1 report65B Rutherford Street, 1 report54B Rutherford Street, 1 report54 Rutherford Street, 1 report4a Rutherford Street, 1 report49B Rutherford Street, 1 report48 Rutherford Street, 1 report46 Rutherford Street, 1 report41-43 Rutherford Street, 1 report36 Rutherford Street, 1 report21A Rutherford Street, 1 report20B Rutherford Street, 1 report20A Rutherford Street, 1 report17-21 Rutherford Street, 1 report14 Rutherford Street, 1 report12 Rutherford Street, 1 report115 Rutherford Street, 1 report107 Rutherford Street, 1 report10-8 Rutherford Street, 1 reportWoolston Cemetery: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Rutherford Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Woolston.

From the air, then

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

and the other 17 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, The borough’s own walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 21 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 2

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Woolston Cut canal · 21 m away Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 22 m away Staunton Esplanade Reserve set of steps · 18 m away Radley Park footbridge · 119 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rutherford Street in 13 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

Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rutherford Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rutherford Street?

374 reports at 77 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (130), rubbish & dumping (103), roads & footpaths (45).

When was Rutherford Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 279 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Rutherford Street?

Woolston Cemetery.

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