Here in the NW of Washington State, blocks would be numbered according to how far they are from a given point, usually in the center of the city. Each block has a 'hundred' number, so the blocks would be 1000, 2000, 3000. This would then be subdivided to the house number, with each 8 feet of curb having it's number the number for any given house is usually the point where the car driveway intersects with the street/curb. Thus a block could have houses with numbers; 3004, 3010, 3020, etc. These would all be on one side of the street, with similar spaced numbers ending in odd digits on the opposite side of the street. In the county where I grew up all 'streets' ran east to west, avenues ran north to south. Streets had even numbered housed on the north side, odd numbered housed on the south side of the street. Avenues have even numbers on the east side and odd on the west side. This makes it very easy to know just where to look for any particular house.
And that may be more than you ever wanted to know about house numbers -but it was very important to my fireman husband. Lorri Washington State USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "W & N Lafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:18 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Roads/blocks > Talking of block sizes and maps, I am always intrigued by USA > street addresses, where the property number is often in four > digits, for example 1358 Smith Street. > > Is there a 3 Smith Street? > Is Smith Street really that long that it has over 1,358 houses in > it, or is your numbering system based on some other principle! > > Noelene in Cooma > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
