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

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Bruce

45 Road in Snohomish County, WA is named because it runs at a 45-degree angle relative to the rest of the grid.

kphoger

Quote from: Bruce on February 23, 2024, 02:53:02 PM
45 Road in Snohomish County, WA is named because it runs at a 45-degree angle relative to the rest of the grid.

That's a cool one!
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

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In NC there's Ten-Ten Road in the Triangle. Whitmire, SC and Neeses, SC, nowhere near each other or Ninety Six, SC, have Ninety Six Road.
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Hot Rod Hootenanny

Here in Suburban Columbus, errr, Delaware County, we have Old 3-C Highway (which is an old alignment for Oh 3) and we have 3 Bs & K Rd. The 3 Bs & K stand for Berlin, Berkshire, Brown & Kingston Townships which the road divides.
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dgolub

Three that come to mind:
* Three Mile Harbor Road (Suffolk CR 40) in East Hampton, NY
* Seven Bridges Road (Westchester CR 21/CR 5) from Chappaqua to Yorktown, NY
* Four Mile River Road in Old Lyme, CT

Bruce

Six Penny Lane is the main road up to the Newcastle Golf Course in Newcastle, WA. Not sure where the name comes from, since it costs way more than 6 cents to do anything up there.

Big John

Quote from: Bruce on February 26, 2024, 04:09:43 AM
Six Penny Lane is the main road up to the Newcastle Golf Course in Newcastle, WA. Not sure where the name comes from, since it costs way more than 6 cents to do anything up there.
6 copies of a Beatles song? :bigass:

catch22

Five Points Street marks the border between far NW Detroit and Redford Township:

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ClassicHasClass

Quote from: Big John on February 26, 2024, 04:51:47 AM
Quote from: Bruce on February 26, 2024, 04:09:43 AM
Six Penny Lane is the main road up to the Newcastle Golf Course in Newcastle, WA. Not sure where the name comes from, since it costs way more than 6 cents to do anything up there.
6 copies of a Beatles song? :bigass:

No, no, six groupies.

frankenroad

Quote from: roadman65 on February 19, 2024, 06:37:34 AM

Plus US 52 encounters many heading east from Cincy.

Those are actually named for creeks which flow into the Ohio River.  The mouths of those creeks are X Miles upriver from Cincinnati.  Anderson Twp is not laid out in a traditional township/range format; those roads are far from straight.
2di's clinched: 44, 66, 68, 71, 72, 74, 78, 83, 84(east), 86(east), 88(east), 96

Highways I've lived on M-43, M-185, US-127

GaryV

There is a story, most likely false, that Novi, Michigan, got it's name from being the sixth stagecoach stop (No. VI). IF (and that's a big if) true, then Novi Road belongs in this category.

Flint1979

Quote from: GaryV on February 28, 2024, 02:17:31 PM
There is a story, most likely false, that Novi, Michigan, got it's name from being the sixth stagecoach stop (No. VI). IF (and that's a big if) true, then Novi Road belongs in this category.
The township was named in 1832 and the railway through there wasn't built for another 40 years. Another one is that it was the sixth toll stop on Grand River Road, but the toll road wasn't built until the 1850's.

GaryV

Quote from: Flint1979 on February 28, 2024, 11:41:28 PM
Quote from: GaryV on February 28, 2024, 02:17:31 PM
There is a story, most likely false, that Novi, Michigan, got it's name from being the sixth stagecoach stop (No. VI). IF (and that's a big if) true, then Novi Road belongs in this category.
The township was named in 1832 and the railway through there wasn't built for another 40 years. Another one is that it was the sixth toll stop on Grand River Road, but the toll road wasn't built until the 1850's.
I heard the railroad, toll road and stagecoach stories, all pretty much debunked. The stagecoach one is the only one that could have been possible - but likely isn't.

davewiecking

There is a Nine Foot Road outside Greenwood, DE, not to be confused with 9 Foot Road outside Dagsboro, DE. Both in Sussex County.

elsmere241

Quote from: El-Caz on February 19, 2024, 11:32:17 PM
There's a Six Forks Rd. in Raleigh, NC.

And in an apartment complex just off of it, there's a Six Knives Road and a Six Spoons Road.

kphoger

Quote from: elsmere241 on February 29, 2024, 10:26:36 AM

Quote from: El-Caz on February 19, 2024, 11:32:17 PM
There's a Six Forks Rd. in Raleigh, NC.

And in an apartment complex just off of it, there's a Six Knives Road and a Six Spoons Road.

I really want there to be a Six Sporks Taco Bell.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

andrepoiy

Highway 7 in York Region (it is no longer a provincial highway, but the name stuck)

roadman65

If it hasn't already been mentioned, Old Highway 99 in Vancouver, Washington is not a bannered route, but the street name of the Historic US 99.

Bradenton, Florida has a 301 Blvd.  That once was US 301 back in the seventies.
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Big John

^^ On this line, there is an "Old Highway 18" by Stevens Point WI.  Was known as WI 18 until replaced with US 10 in 1926.  Current US 18 is nowhere near this.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/NPvZfLZ6LwhMHk4G9

Dirt Roads

Mason, Putnam and Kanawha counties in West Virginia have a bunch of roads named after navigation points on the Kanawha River (or for parallel creeks named as such):

  • Three Mile Road (Henderson, Mason County)
  • Lock Eleven Road (Henderson, Mason County)
  • Upper Five Mile Road (Henderson, Mason County)
  • Lower Five Mile Road (Southside, Mason County)
  • Seven Mile Road (Southside, Mason County)
  • Eight Mile Road (Leon, Mason County)
  • Lower Nine Mile Road (Southside, Mason County)
  • Middle Nine Mile Road (Southside, Mason County)
  • Upper Nine Mile Road (Southside, Mason County)
  • Ten Mile Creek Road (Leon, Mason County)
  • Thirteen Mile Creek Road (Leon, Mason County)
  • 16 Mile Road (Southside, Mason County and Fraziers Bottom, Putnam County)
  • Little 16 Mile Road (Southside, Mason County and Fraziers Bottom, Putnam County)
  • Big Sixteen Mile Road (Southside, Mason County)
  • Eighteen Mile Creek Road (Buffalo, Putnam County)
  • Lock Nine Road (Buffalo, Putnam County)
  • 5 and 20 Mile Creek Road (Fraziers Bottom, Putnam County)
  • Lock Seven Street (now renamed First Street North - St. Albans, Kanawha County)
  • Kanawha Two Mile Road (Charleston, Kanawha County)
  • 5 Mile Road (Cinco, Kanawha County)
  • 8 Mile Hollow Road (Blount, Kanawha County)
There's also a Three Mile Road and a Four Mile Road with Charleston addresses that are based on the Elk River navigation system.

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