Along Belmont Street (Route 9), a street in Worcester, MA, along which the address numbers generally increase going east, there is a stretch of houses with numbers that are as follows, from west to east: 276, 266, 270, 278, 274. (Google Maps link here, with the numbers: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2734111,-71.7754611,19z)
Throughout the country, where else have you seen blocks or stretches of address numbers that jump around randomly, run in reverse, or otherwise proceed contrary to the overall flow of address numbers along the street? I know that close to home in Weston, MO, the house numbers in the 200 block of Walnut Street increase west to east, whereas the overall pattern along the street (and in the town overall) runs from east to west. (Link: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4115774,-94.8951063,19z)
Washington Terrace, Woburn, MA
Oh boy you haven't been to areas in Connecticut then it would be something like 2x-6x then jump to 1xx within a hundred feet from it, I had to stop in the middle of the road and say wtf.. or contractors making up numbers.
Seems like it's largely a New England thing - which I kind of already figured.
Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 29, 2021, 06:47:41 PM
Seems like it's largely a New England thing - which I kind of already figured.
It is. I grew up in an even numbered house on the odd side of the street. As a general rule, my town uses the convention of number of feet the lot starts from the beginning of the street/10 as the numbering method.
LombardiAve. between Green Bay and Ashwaubenon. They use different street-grid numbering so along it you will see different address on the south side of the street.
Campus Drive in Somerset, NJ at one time. 11 Campus Drive was directly across the street from 399 Campus Drive.
not quite what you asked for but close.
several places in town, the actual street changes as you go around a turn, so an e-w street becomes a n-w street with different number ranges. then you go around another turn, and you're back in the e-w house numbers
on the north end of town, where north college turns into us-287, the number resets as well. there's a trailer park that's 2025 n college, then the next place is like 205 us-287.
There's an example of this in the town I grew up in, outside Chicago, where 1542 is between 1536 and 1540. This could be readily resolved by making the middle house 1538, but they haven't done so. It drove me nuts when I was younger.
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Quote from: MikeCL on October 29, 2021, 06:42:34 PM
Oh boy you haven’t been to areas in Connecticut then it would be something like 2x-6x then jump to 1xx within a hundred feet from it, I had to stop in the middle of the road and say wtf.. or contractors making up numbers.
If you're talking about something like this where the numbers jump at intersections, that's fairly normal. Or even where the intersection would be, if the street disappears for some reason.
|| 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 || 200 204 ... || 300 304 ... ||
Quote from: CtrlAltDel on October 30, 2021, 12:44:20 PM
There's an example of this in the town I grew up in, outside Chicago, where 1542 is between 1536 and 1540. This could be readily resolved by making the middle house 1538, but they haven't done so. It drove me nuts when I was younger.
(https://i.imgur.com/h0Nxht7.png)
Quote from: MikeCL on October 29, 2021, 06:42:34 PM
Oh boy you haven't been to areas in Connecticut then it would be something like 2x-6x then jump to 1xx within a hundred feet from it, I had to stop in the middle of the road and say wtf.. or contractors making up numbers.
If you're talking about something like this where the numbers jump at intersections, that's fairly normal. Or even where the intersection would be, if the street disappears for some reason.
|| 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 || 200 204 ... || 300 304 ... ||
For the numbers here it's pretty far from the intersection I'm not sure how they figure out house numbers or if they are grandfathered in?
Quote from: MikeCL on October 30, 2021, 12:52:44 PM
For the numbers here it's pretty far from the intersection I'm not sure how they figure out house numbers or if they are grandfathered in?
It's very possible that there's some grandfathering going on. In the town I grew up in, just for example, address numbers were set before it really became a residential area, and so when newer houses were built, they fit the new numbers around the old. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't.
Quote from: CtrlAltDel on October 30, 2021, 01:02:18 PM
Quote from: MikeCL on October 30, 2021, 12:52:44 PM
For the numbers here it's pretty far from the intersection I'm not sure how they figure out house numbers or if they are grandfathered in?
It's very possible that there's some grandfathering going on. In the town I grew up in, just for example, address numbers were set before it really became a residential area, and so when newer houses were built, they fit the new numbers around the old. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't.
Yeah that's what I'm going to guess it's just a jarring jump in the number you can't help but question it
My favorite was Winthrop Shore Drive in Winthrop, Mass where across from the houses was the beach, and odd and even numbered houses were on the same side of the street. When I first saw that when I was little, I thought it was unique. Then I realized Revere Beach Boulevard did the same thing, and wondered if the same was done on any street fronting a beach.
Tega Cay, SC is just weird in general.
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