Fortune Street

41 reports at 20 addresses in Mairehau, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 35 separate days somebody filed something about it.

41 reports 20 addresses35 days reported onfrom the air, then 4 documents carry the namethe 1681st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Fortune Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Fortune Street from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Fortune Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Fortune 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

Rubbish & dumping, 11 reports
Trees & parks, 10 reports
Water & drains, 8 reports
Roads & footpaths, 4 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 4 reports
Everything else, 2 reports
Animals & pests, 2 reports

Year by year

2017, 1 report
2019, 5 reports
2020, 3 reports
2021, 1 report
2022, 2 reports
2023, 7 reports
2024, 7 reports
2025, 10 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 4 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:

DUNEDIN INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. (Otago Daily Times, 17 June 1881) · Papers Past, 17 Jun 1881
…led with fresher life shakes off the calm that wrapped her in its her fame ia told afarto fortune strife i bold hearts are summond by the cry of gold they come they come the rough but genrons throng b…