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Street has 40 homes- why are house numbers 4 digits?
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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Because numbering usually starts at a point in community and increases the further out a building is from that point.
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Street numbers are typically designated by a City, Town or Development Authority (in cooperation with local government) to simplify addresses and to avoid confusion for (2) entities ... public safety and the U.S. Post Office. In some cases, the 1st number or 2, with be a region/area locator, followed by a sequential number on the particular street (with gaps left for future expansion and the typical even/odd sides of the street). I don't know how The Village numbering system works, but I can assure you, it was designed with public safety and convenience in mind. |
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Or maybe the system is sponsored by the hardware stores :-) |
Just be happy you don't live in Marion County where the street addresses are all 5 digit plus a directional abbreviation and number and then the street name!
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You generally have a major east-west street and north-south street near the center of a city. As you go north from the east-west street, the house numbers increase from 1 or some small number. As you go south, they increase in a likewise manner. Same thing as you go east or west from the north-south street where that numbering starts. Bonus information: House numbers on one side of the street will be even numbers, and on the other side...odd numbers! |
I thought it was done on purpose to keep the FedEx guy guessing as to where you might actually live.
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Some areas build logic into the numbers. Maybe distance from a point, same street name used elsewhere with lower or higher numbers etc. Go to your county web site and try researching.
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Because 5 digits costs more than 4
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Addressing | Sumter County, FL - Official Website |
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ne are odd. Many years chasing addresses |
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What about the street names in this area with two designators like Street Road. Couldn't make up their minds what they wanted to call it?
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I've read all the previous posts .... yes, I know that is so unusual for this site. They do not explain why my street number is repeated on the next street over.
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In the Portland Metro area, the address numbering system starts in downtown Portland.
The are is divided into 5 quadrants (yes I know quad means 4). NW, SW, N, NE, SE Out in my old neighborhood about 12 miles to thewest, I was at 17930 NW Fieldstone. Closest main westside N-S street was NW and SW 185th Avenue. My street was a neighborhood street, a short east-west street. There was a minor east-west road about a mile away where an east-west road was the dividing line between those NW and SW prefixed roads, streets and avenues. The home I moved from to come to The Villages was a 4-digit house number on SW 190th Avenue which made a hard turn to the east and the road name changed to SW Kemmer Road; this was the name of the family who originally settled in the area. Addresses on that road were now 5 digits, SW 19xxx as it continued east for a few miles or so, ending at SW Murray, the major N-S avenue which was technically SW 155th Avenue. In summary a broad grid system for getting a pretty good idea of location. When we moved to that home in 1980 our street address was Rt 2, Box xxx. It was changed to a grid system address for public safety. I'm visiting this week in Bucks County, PA. George Washington and William Penn slept here. Roads have names and numbers. There's also a menageries of highway names on those named streets, and there's really no way to know where you are. í ½í¸‰ |
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Our address is 1991, our neighbor two streets on the left, corner house is also 1991. We had five large boxes of furniture delivered and it was placed on the porch blocking the front door. Had to first find out where the furniture was and use a dolly to move it down the street. In an emergency someone may stop at 1991 because that is the first 1991 one sees on the road to our house. 😳
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addresses start from center of town
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So you can use it for the 4 digit garage code (or reverse it if you want to be clever)?
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I loved they way St. Petersburg was laid out. If the address was 3214 52nd St. N. You knew it was in the 32nd Ave block and the 52nd St. On the North side of the city. Central Ave split the North and South sides. If they had a named street it fell between the numbered street. Darlington Ave was between 4th and 5th Avenue. Last 2 numbers were house placement. Even was on West side or North. Occasionally they threw in Place, Terrace, and Way. I was taught PAT put Place and Terrace same direction as Avenue. Otherwise it went with Street. I felt it was impossible to get lost in St. Pete.
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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. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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. |
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