Street has 40 homes- why are house numbers 4 digits?

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Old 11-26-2022, 08:58 AM
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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.
Indianapolis/Marion County starts house numbering at the center of the city.
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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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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?
In Sumter county (or formerly old Lady Lake land), it looks like numbers on N and S streets and E and W streets go from what looks like E and W lady lake blvd and 441. I live in the 1400s and on all the N/S streets, there is a house number the same as mine. Maybe Lady Lake originally owns the numbering system from the land they owned that was then sold to the Villages.

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More mindless musings on a misty Saturday morning, but I guess inquiring minds just want to know. After pondering this existential topic, a single burning question simply won't slip out of my head: What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
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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?
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.

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More mindless musings on a misty Saturday morning, but I guess inquiring minds just want to know. After pondering this existential topic, a single burning question simply won't slip out of my head: What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
You should be allowed to be a group moderator. You could dramatically reduce the number of threads being posted by kind, friendly people who were not aware that their questions are mindless. After all- why should space here be wasted by text that doesn't line up exactly with your values and opinions?
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Addresses in The Villages that are in Marion County are 4 digit numbers then 3 digit numbers then street address. Example 8888 S.E. 266th Grand Ave. (all made up for this example) Try writing that on forms that need to be filled out or on an envelope.
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More mindless musings on a misty Saturday morning, but I guess inquiring minds just want to know. After pondering this existential topic, a single burning question simply won't slip out of my head: What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
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You should be allowed to be a group moderator. You could dramatically reduce the number of threads being posted by kind, friendly people who were not aware that their questions are mindless. After all- why should space here be wasted by text that doesn't line up exactly with your values and opinions?
Nah, he’s right.
I want to know more about this Hokey Pokey thing.
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Official 911 addresses are assigned by a department of the county. In Sumter it is the Addressing Office.

Addressing | Sumter County, FL - Official Website
Not for new neighborhoods - that is from when rural addreses needed to be converted
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