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Old 11-25-2022, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by BrianL99 View Post
I've been in most every major city in the USA and I've never seen a system like that. Street #'s may increase in that way, not house numbers. Every city/town adopts it's own numbering system, based on convenience and safety. If a house/building number consist of more than 3 or 4 numbers, the preceding numbers are likely a "grid #" of one sort or another.
Columbus Ohio is exactly like that. Everything starts at Broad Street and High Street. Numerical Streets and Avenues get higher as you move out of downtown,, as do the house numbers, until you get to unincorporated areas. Also, even numbered addresses are on the east side of north/south routes, and even numbered addresses are on the north side of east/west routes.