You just inspired me to look up old plat maps for my township. The oldest was 1820 and the newest one they had online was 1915. All of them had the section numbers (the 6-mile by 6-mile township is divided into 36 sections) and owner's name, but no street addresses.
Interesting stuff. Those owners' names are still reflected in the names of various roads around here.
Thanks.
Cindy Hamilton
Sometimes it is to give the illusion of a larger subdivision / longer street. Also why some streets do NOT start with 1 or 2 - but something stupid like 4051
Here it is common with semis and row housing - as well as the "lonk" homes as well as when 1/2 acre lots are devided.
That makes sense. I'll look at some other streets to see how it works, even though it is not a perfect grid with contours and angles it does give a logical system.
Thankfully, they only put the stamps on the back windows.
Sure, when we hit 9 billion people on earth it will be prime building land. I'm going to make a 6' wide rental between houses here. I've heard of crazier places.
Yes, in Philadelphia is was their relatives Walnut, Chestnut, Spruce, Cherry. The main street running in the center of the city was named after a woman, it is Broad Street.
In my area, the early settlers were named A, B, C, up to E.
It's not clear to me why no one named F or beyond ever settled here.
Back in the 80's when our area was expanding and farmland was being converted to instant neighborhoods, the developers had free reign to name their streets and basically just tell the authorities.
After a while the county 911 folks said "Hold on. How many White Pine Lanes are we going to end up with?"
The county instituted some kind of review system so street names could be approved prior to assignment to eliminate the growing confusion about where the ambulance was supposed to go.
We review the GIS data for new sites. If they have two streets with identical names, the same address ranges on two different segments, or so forth and so forth my highly technical analysis is 'This isn't Psychics'R'Us. It will be luck of the draw where we send the responders.'
NENA (National Emergency Number Association) is trying to get everyone to adopt a common schema and to clean up their data. That should go as well as the push to have seamless communication between agencies that came after 9/11.
I live on an "unconnected road". Before everyone had a GPS built into their phone or vehicle, it was a real pain.
My neighborhood consist of 7 streets that run East-West. Each street is only 1 block long, averaging maybe 8 houses each. There is one North-South road that connects the west end of each street and woods along the east ends.
Only 3 of the 7 East-West roads let you in and out of the neighborhood. Mine is not one of them. However, all 7 streets continue on the west side of the North-South road.
For MyStreet, the house numbers end at 180 on the West side of the North-South road and pick up at 200 on the East (my) side. I live at 206 MyStreet.
The biggest problem was that is was not clear on the paper maps of the area that all 7 roads didn't cross the North-South road. When we first moved in and were getting all sorts of deliveries of appliances, furniture, etc. I would always tell the store that they can't get to my house based on the paper map. "You have to enter the neighborhood on ABC St. and head north on XYZ Ave. to MyStreet. My house is on an extension of the other MyStreet."
"Yes, OK. We understand. Thanks!"
9 out of 10 times I'd get that dreaded phone call. "I can't find your house. MyStreet ends at 180. There is no 206 MyStreet."Arrrggghhh!
Before 2020 I would get a piece of misdelivered mail about once a month. It was for an address with the same number, but on the next street. It was usually easier o walk around the block than take it to the post office. The mail carrier seems to be getting better, and this doesn't happen as much.
I once got a FedEx-delivered package containing 9 pounds of white cake frosting, intended for a store about 35 miles away. They came back the next day for it.
This is Mt Hood in June right there next to the lodge
There are old row houses in the US that aren't much more than 12 feet wide.
I bet they added the addresses to the working copies the county uses in the 80s when GIS mapping and the universal address system started catching hold but you are in Michigan so who knows. My kids are still waiting for their car tags. (since April).
Clare is not paying attention. Most municipalities adopted the universal system. It is the GIS grid that determines the house number, not the start of a street. Every house on that longitude (or latitude that is perpendicular to the street) in that municipality will be
4051. At least that is the plan.
They do have judgement calls on curved streets but they try to maintain the system. Building code people tend to use lot numbers because they don't change as a development comes out of the ground. It is also coded into the strap number that is used for the bookkeeping (taxes, zoning etc).
We were doing the loop around Mt Hood (84, 35, 26) with a planned stop at the Hood River Ranger Station. When we got to the station, it was closed but instead of leaving immediately, we decided to look around, not that there was much to see. Basically a leg stretch break. It's a good thing that we delayed our departure.
After wasting about 10 - 15 minutes, we were just about to leave the parking lot when a ranger pulled in. We decided to stop and say hi, ask a few questions, etc. We spent almost an hour having one of the most enjoyable conversations of our lives. We're originally from NYC, he was originally from NJ, just across the river from Manhattan. We (all three of us) talked about moving out of the big city, how much we enjoyed the countryside more, and how, even after decades, we were still "big city folks" inside and how that made the whole "moving out" still an adventure. We remain in awe of the beauty our country has to offer. Kindred spirits having a chance meeting in ranger station parking lot within spitting distance of Mt Hood, Oregon. Who knew? ;-)
After we left, we headed over to the Timberline Lodge. It was 55°F and sunny when we turned off Rt. 26 and headed up the mountain. It was 32°F with wet, blowing snow by the time we reached the lodge. We were greeted by this as soon as we got out of the truck.
They probably did.
Huh. We got ours in November/December without noticeable delay. I renewed them online.
Cindy Hamilton
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