Most common street names for address number baseline roads?

Started by KCRoadFan, June 24, 2023, 03:56:40 AM

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pderocco

By the way, there's a Seventh Standard Road in Bakersfield, CA. That cadastral survey of central California (and a chunk of Nevada) which starts from the Diablo Mountain initial point, marks off "standards" every 24 miles, from which local surveys are done. That particular road is on the seventh such standard line. I've never seen another road so named. Also odd, I don't see any road along the Diablo Mountain baseline that has a typical name, although there is a Meridian Ave in San Jose.


GaryV

Quote from: cwf1701 on August 17, 2023, 08:51:44 PM
Quote from: Streetman on August 17, 2023, 08:42:48 PM
Quote from: pderocco on June 24, 2023, 05:49:31 PM
Duh. You forgot "Baseline".

San Bernardino County, CA has streets called Base Line Ave, Base Line St, Baseline Ave, and Baseline St along (you guessed it) the San Bernardino Baseline. It shows up as far east as Twentynine Palms.

The Willamette Stone is a marker in Portland, OR, and its baseline is called Baseline St in Hillsboro, Cornelius, and Forest Grove.
Also a Baseline Road in Boulder, CO:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0001689,-105.2341669,17z

And 8 Mile Road in Detroit was once called Baseline Rd.

That's because it was part of the east/west base line for surveys that created townships. There's also Meridian Road that formed the north/south divide.

Not for addresses.

andrepoiy


Occidental Tourist

Quote from: pderocco on August 18, 2023, 12:04:57 AM
By the way, there's a Seventh Standard Road in Bakersfield, CA. That cadastral survey of central California (and a chunk of Nevada) which starts from the Diablo Mountain initial point, marks off "standards" every 24 miles, from which local surveys are done. That particular road is on the seventh such standard line. I've never seen another road so named. Also odd, I don't see any road along the Diablo Mountain baseline that has a typical name, although there is a Meridian Ave in San Jose.


There's also a Fifth Standard Solar Center along Jayne Road near Coalinga.  If you follow Jayne Road east until it ends, and continue on Nevada Road which picks up the east-west routing along the same parallel of east of Jayne, you'll eventually be due north of Seventh Standard Road.  The Jayne/Nevada parallel is exactly 48 miles north of Seventh Standard Road.

tdindy88

Going off of the list on the first post. Indianapolis has a north-south baseline of Meridian Street and an east-west baseline (mostly) of Washington Street. At some point on the west side of Indianapolis the baseline becomes Rockville Road as Washington Street turns toward the southwest to follow the route of the National Road.

Interestingly, the Meridian Street baseline continues north into adjacent Hamilton County as that county's address system is connected to Indianapolis'. To the west Rockville Road becomes US 36 and serves as the east-west baseline for Hendricks County. To the east, Washington Street becomes US 40 and is the east-west baseline for Hancock County.



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