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Originally Posted by bsloan1960
Just curious if there is a system used to number house addresses. Why would a street with 40 homes have addresses like 3245 rather than numbers 1 through 40?
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Most of the Country adheres to a National Geological Cartography standard.
Think of a crosshairs (quadrants, as posted by someone else). There is a North/South line and an East/West line (Usually a road, like "Baseline Road" near Ocala);
Street addresses are a mileage measurement from those baselines. For example, 1250 E. Main would be 1.25 miles East of the North/South baseline. 13875 being 13.875 from its respective baseline.
Each "Standard" city block is 1/10 th of a mile.
Hence the "nn-Hundred Block. 100, 200, 300, etc. The "hundred" usually being on the street signs. (e.g. 5600 W. etc.)
As noted in a previous post, odd numbers are on one side of the street, evens on the other.
All of this "Standard" is to facilitate Public services (fire, police, mail, etc ) being able to rapidly and easily locate you.
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Interestingly, the Standard also calls for Odd numbers to be assigned to North/South Hiways, Interstates, thoroughfares and even numbers to East west.
And lettered and numbered roads be assigned to Rural Roads.
Numbers to East/West roads with the south most road of a County being Road #1. And each next Northerly road being one digit greater. (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.)
North/South Rural Roads to be A, thru ZZ (etc,) commencing at the most Westerly North/South road of the County.