Streets that have a number as just part of the name

Started by Streetman, February 18, 2024, 02:57:52 PM

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There's a Four Mile Post Road here in Huntsville, AL, which got its name due to there originally being a sign indicating four miles to the county courthouse where the western end of the road intersects Whitesburg Drive.

Around the intersection of AL 36 and AL 67 just outside of Somerville, AL, in Morgan County you can also find a Six Mile Road, Old Six Mile Road, and Six Mile Creek Road all connected to each other. Apparently this is due to a small, unincorporated community called Six Mile right around there.

There's also a 2nd Hill Road in Walker County, AL, just southeast of Nauvoo.
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Four Seasons Drive in Ruckersville, VA is named after the neighborhood is serves.
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There is Five Points Road near West Chester, PA

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Quote from: 1995hoo on February 18, 2024, 08:25:19 PM
The references to Virginia prompt me to think of Three Chopt Road, which is also sometimes called Three Notch'd Road in reference to the particular trail blaze that was used in colonial times to mark the route. The road supposedly follows the approximate route the governor and General Assembly used to escape the Brits after Jack Jouett's Ride (a major historical event you learn about in fourth grade if you grow up in Virginia—he rode 40 miles west overnight from eastern Louisa County to Charlottesville to warn Governor Thomas Jefferson and the General Assembly that British cavalry were coming to try to arrest them, and he made the ride in time for all but seven members to escape to Staunton via Three Chopt Road before the British came).

Also, US 1 on the north side of Columbia, SC, is called Two Notch Road.

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Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on February 18, 2024, 06:14:25 PM
Quote from: Streetman on February 18, 2024, 04:24:02 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 18, 2024, 03:30:52 PM
Nine Mile Road near Richmond, VA.
A quick search shows there are many roads named One Mile, Two Mile, Three Mile, etc., so I would exclude those.

I think what you're looking for are roads with numbers in the name that aren't part of a sequential system.

I can't think of any off the top of my head in Indiana.

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Quote from: GaryV on February 18, 2024, 04:21:18 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 18, 2024, 03:30:52 PM
Nine Mile Road near Richmond, VA.
There must be hundreds or thousands of these across the Midwest.  Perhaps in other areas that used the same surveying techniques of township and range.

Although that might technically violate the restriction on ordinals. It's not quite 1st, 2nd, 3rd. But 9 Mile is 9 miles from the baseline, 10 Mile is another mile along, then 11 Mile, 12 Mile, etc.



Metro Detroit has them plentiful.  Plus US 52 encounters many heading east from Cincy.
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Quote from: KCRoadFan on February 19, 2024, 02:42:49 AM
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Nine Mile Road near Richmond, VA.
A quick search shows there are many roads named One Mile, Two Mile, Three Mile, etc., so I would exclude those.

I think what you're looking for are roads with numbers in the name that aren't part of a sequential system.

I can't think of any off the top of my head in Indiana.

Stop 11 Road, on the south side of Indianapolis, says hi.

There's also a Stop 10, Stop 12, Stop 18.
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Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on February 19, 2024, 07:19:49 AM
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Nine Mile Road near Richmond, VA.
A quick search shows there are many roads named One Mile, Two Mile, Three Mile, etc., so I would exclude those.

I think what you're looking for are roads with numbers in the name that aren't part of a sequential system.

I can't think of any off the top of my head in Indiana.

Stop 11 Road, on the south side of Indianapolis, says hi.

There's also a Stop 10, Stop 12, Stop 18.

I just thought of another one - how about Six Points Road, just west of Indy, near the airport?

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Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on February 19, 2024, 07:19:49 AM
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Quote from: Streetman on February 18, 2024, 04:24:02 PM
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Nine Mile Road near Richmond, VA.
A quick search shows there are many roads named One Mile, Two Mile, Three Mile, etc., so I would exclude those.

I think what you're looking for are roads with numbers in the name that aren't part of a sequential system.

I can't think of any off the top of my head in Indiana.

Stop 11 Road, on the south side of Indianapolis, says hi.

There's also a Stop 10, Stop 12, Stop 18.

I've always wondered about the story behind those. I just assumed stagecoach stops or something.

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Northwest of Rockville, Indiana, headed towards West Union, Indiana, there's a "Ten O' Clock Road", likely named because it goes up and to the left.
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In Bakersfield, CA, there's "7th Standard Road".  The name refers to the surveying reference line along which it runs.

The other standard lines between here and the Mt Diablo baseline exist, but I don't think any of them have streets named after them.

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Bay County, MI has a road called Townline 14 and another road called Townline 16 as well as the mile roads starting at 2 Mile and going up to 11 Mile however 10 Mile is Garfield Road, 6 Mile is Fraser Road and 5 Mile is Mackinaw Road.

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It's named after the town with the same name, but part of CA-62 is designated as "29 Palms Highway".
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Quote from: Streetman on February 18, 2024, 02:57:52 PM
To help explain the topic, the best example is probably in Twentynine Palms, CA, which has 29 Palms Highway going through it. My town, Hamden CT, has two examples: Four Rod Rd. and Six Rod Hwy. (A rod is 16.5 feet; the names describe the original width of their rights-of-way.) Another example, which is my contender for most unusual street name in CT, is Twenty-Four Bumper Rd., signed on a CT-8 overpass in Harwinton. Any such in your area?

Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 23, 2024, 10:06:33 AM
It's named after the town with the same name, but part of CA-62 is designated as "29 Palms Highway".

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Quote from: Streetman on February 18, 2024, 04:24:02 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 18, 2024, 03:30:52 PM
Nine Mile Road near Richmond, VA.
A quick search shows there are many roads named One Mile, Two Mile, Three Mile, etc., so I would exclude those.

The Nine Mile Road in Henrico County is not part of a system of "X Mile Road" streets.
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