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Smith Street

744 reports at 107 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 516 separate days somebody filed something about it.

744 reports107 addresses516 days reported onfrom the air, then258 documents carry the namethe 45th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

180 Smith Street, 219 reports117 Smith Street, 81 reports140 Smith Street, 45 reports119 Smith Street, 38 reports8 Smith Street, 35 reports19P Smith Street, 29 reports141 Smith Street, 26 reports18 Smith Street, 13 reports130 Smith Street, 12 reports61A Smith Street, 10 reports24 Smith Street, 9 reports138 Smith Street, 9 reports1 Smith Street, 9 reports61 Smith Street, 8 reports2 Smith Street, 8 reports10 Smith Street, 8 reports71B Smith Street, 7 reports23 Smith Street, 7 reports18A Smith Street, 7 reports16A Smith Street, 6 reports115 Smith Street, 6 reports71 Smith Street, 5 reports21 Smith Street, 5 reports106 Smith Street, 5 reports90 Smith Street, 4 reports78 Smith Street, 4 reports51 Smith Street, 4 reports41A Smith Street, 4 reports128 Smith Street, 4 reports98A Smith Street, 3 reports94 Smith Street, 3 reports22 Smith Street, 3 reports20 Smith Street, 3 reports19 Smith Street, 3 reports16–20 Smith Street, 3 reports16 Smith Street, 3 reports144-180 Smith Street, 3 reports99 Smith Street, 2 reports97 Smith Street, 2 reports96 Smith Street, 2 reports93 Smith Street, 2 reports87 Smith Street, 2 reports82 Smith Street, 2 reports74 Smith Street, 2 reports73 Smith Street, 2 reports69 Smith Street, 2 reports64 Smith Street, 2 reports45A Smith Street, 2 reports41 Smith Street, 2 reports27 Smith Street, 2 reports25 Smith Street, 2 reports180-332 Smith Street, 2 reports127 Smith Street, 2 reports121 Smith Street, 2 reports120 Smith Street, 2 reports111A Smith Street, 2 reports108 Smith Street, 2 reports107 Smith Street, 2 reports103 Smith Street, 2 reports100 Smith Street, 2 reports92 Smith Street, 1 report9 Smith Street, 1 report89 Smith Street, 1 report87A Smith Street, 1 report85 Smith Street, 1 report8-4 Smith Street, 1 report79 Smith Street, 1 report76 Smith Street, 1 report72 Smith Street, 1 report70-72 Smith Street, 1 report70 Smith Street, 1 report67A Smith Street, 1 report67 Smith Street, 1 report66 Smith Street, 1 report65 Smith Street, 1 report63 Smith Street, 1 report57 Smith Street, 1 report55 Smith Street, 1 report49 Smith Street, 1 report45 Smith Street, 1 report36 Smith Street, 1 report32 Smith Street, 1 report31B Smith Street, 1 report31A Smith Street, 1 report28 Smith Street, 1 report27D Smith Street, 1 report26 Smith Street, 1 report232 Smith Street, 1 report18B Smith Street, 1 report17 Smith Street, 1 report162 Smith Street, 1 report160 Smith Street, 1 report158 Smith Street, 1 report15 Smith Street, 1 report136 Smith Street, 1 report135 Smith Street, 1 report133-135 Smith Street, 1 report123 Smith Street, 1 report122 Smith Street, 1 report12 Smith Street, 1 report117-139 Smith Street, 1 report114 Smith Street, 1 report111-117 Smith Street, 1 report11 Smith Street, 1 report109 Smith Street, 1 report105 Smith Street, 1 report101 Smith Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Smith Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Smith Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Smith 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 47 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 258 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

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

Mary Dixon Park footbridge · 9 m away Linwood Pool ramp · 37 m away Linwood Pool set of steps · 45 m away Linwood Pool shelter · 62 m away Linwood Pool ramp · 67 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Smith Street in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Smith Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Smith Street?

744 reports at 107 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (349), rubbish & dumping (225), trees & parks (68).

When was Smith Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 516 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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