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Orontes Street

44 reports at 20 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 41 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports20 addresses41 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 1522nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

8E Orontes Street, 5 reports8 Orontes Street, 5 reports20 Orontes Street, 5 reports9 Orontes Street, 4 reports7 Orontes Street, 3 reports22 Orontes Street, 3 reports26 Orontes Street, 2 reports21 Orontes Street, 2 reports15 Orontes Street, 2 reports13 Orontes Street, 2 reports10 Orontes Street, 2 reports8-10 Orontes Street, 1 report7–9 Orontes Street, 1 report7-9 Orontes Street, 1 report4 Orontes Street, 1 report28 Orontes Street, 1 report24 Orontes Street, 1 report17 Orontes Street, 1 report14 Orontes Street, 1 report11 Orontes Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Orontes Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Orontes Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Orontes Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Orontes 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

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Orontes Street in 3 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Orontes Street?

In Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Orontes Street?

44 reports at 20 addresses, most often water & drains (15), graffiti & vandalism (13), rubbish & dumping (9).

When was Orontes Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 41 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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