Orion Street

38 reports at 8 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 36 separate days somebody filed something about it.

38 reports 8 addresses36 days reported onfrom the air, then 3 documents carry the namethe 1659th 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 Orion Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Shirley.

From the air, then

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

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

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

Orion 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

3 Orion Street, 17 reports
4 Orion Street, 5 reports
10 Orion Street, 5 reports
6 Orion Street, 4 reports
5 Orion Street, 3 reports
2 Orion Street, 2 reports
4A Orion Street, 1 report
3-5 Orion Street, 1 report

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 10 reports
Water & drains, 6 reports
Trees & parks, 6 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 5 reports
Roads & footpaths, 3 reports
Animals & pests, 3 reports
Everything else, 2 reports
Noise, 2 reports

Year by year

2019, 2 reports
2020, 4 reports
2022, 8 reports
2023, 4 reports
2024, 3 reports
2025, 12 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 23 May 1908) · Papers Past, 23 May 1908
…cottage city or suburbs write per manent star office 5901 anted sell tents 8 x 10 12 x 14 orion stove 50p 4 invalid chairs punching ball t austin opposite caver eham 5917 itranted to buy bagatelle tal…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 5 Aug 2004
…Clarence, builder, of 126 South Belt, Masterton, at 10.00 a.m.Friis, Brett Patrick, of 17 Orion Street, Auckland, at 1.10 p.m.Jewell, Craig Edward, beneficiary, of 72 Tilford Street, Linwood, Christch…
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register · New Zealand Gazette, 17 Jul 2014
…ORGANICLAND LIMITED.ORIENT CONSTRUCTION GROUP LIMITED.ORIGIN BUILDING CONSULTANTS LIMITED.ORION STREET INVESTMENTS LIMITED.ORITAIN (USA) LIMITED.ORSM INVESTMENTS LIMITED.ORUM FABRICATION LIMITED.OSCAR…

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Shirley Stream stream · 3 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Orion Street in 5 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.