[gobuck827]

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?

Official 911 addresses are assigned by a department of the county. In Sumter it is the Addressing Office.

Addressing | Sumter County, FL - Official Website

[Hape2Bhr]

Originally Posted by bagboy

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.

Questionable if Columbus if a major city.

[bagboy]

Originally Posted by Hape2Bhr

Questionable if Columbus if a major city.

14th largest city in the country, but...

[Worldseries27]

Originally Posted by djlnc

i'll answer this as if it's a serious question...

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!

up north sw streets are even numbered
ne are odd. Many years chasing addresses

[rrtjp]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Interestingly, there is a street near Bonifay named Mockingbird Lane, and on google maps there is actually a house numbered 1313. I wanted to drive by on Halloween, but I was afraid Herman and Grandpa would be waiting

Lol

[WingedFoot78]

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?

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

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.

That’s definitely how it is done in Denver. My in-laws live in the small town of Loma Linda, CA, in San Bernardino County. Their street has under forty houses, but there number is in the 13 thousands because of where it is in the county. Every house in town has 5 digits.

[Annie66]

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.

[M2inOR]

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. 😉

[mkjelenbaas]

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?

This is a big question that needs investigation and we NEED to know??

[sowilts]

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. 😳

[CaptainW]

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?

I live in a village with Premier, Designer and Villa homes. The Premier homes all have three digit house numbers and the Designer homes all have four digit numbers.

[dougancathy]

addresses start from center of town

[Tom M]

So you can use it for the 4 digit garage code (or reverse it if you want to be clever)?

[airstreamingypsy]

Originally Posted by mkjelenbaas

This is a big question that needs investigation and we NEED to know??

There are people in this world who like to know things. I have often wondered, but didn't think there was any rhyme or reason. Now I know otherwise.