While browsing Google Maps, I noticed that some addresses are numbered 0. How common is this?
There's a well-known building in Charlottesville numbered "0 Court Square (https://goo.gl/maps/EWEzv1RDXLJ7yKgH8)" (as in "Zero Court Square," although the local practice is to say "Number Nothing" instead of "Zero"). The building was once the slave auction site and there's a marker embedded in the sidewalk out front next to the lamppost showing where the auction block was. Apparently the building's historical significance stirred controversy a few years ago when it was up for sale.
That's the only one that I know of off the top of my head, though I might have seen others that I don't recall.
Edited to add: Typing 0 followed by a space into Google Maps turned up a few "number nothings" in Key West. Perhaps a local custom there? In most places, I would expect that number to be an indication of infill construction where the odd numbers are on one side, the evens are on the other, there was a gap in between, and something was built in the gap and assigned "zero" because that's all that fit.
There is a house at 'ZERO Oneida Ct' here in Appleton, WI. Well, it is actually in a surrounding unincorporated township.)
Mike
I remember one of the sestieri of Venice had a number 0.
I remember seeing a building numbered 0 (actually, 00) on Broad Street in Richmond, VA, when I traveled the length of that street on Street View.
I've seen this for lots or homes to be constructed, with the address presumably changing afterward.
I just saw this for the first time in the town I live in. A house was listed with an address of 0. On a "private drive" more or less so I assume no other houses will be constructed on that street. I didn't know a zero was allowed for an address. I would have thought 1 would be used in this purpose.
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In Norman, address 0 would be nearly impossible, because address numbers start at 100.
In Oklahoma City, an address 0 would be theoretically possible, but it would have to occur immediately adjacent to one of the baselines (Santa Fe or Reno) and have a good reason why it couldn't use 1.