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?
Six Flags Road in Austell GA, leading bto the theme park.
Old Road to 9 Acre Corner, Concord, MA
Seven Star Rd., Groveland, MA
I assume you're excluding ordinals?
Nine Mile Road near Richmond, VA.
One of the oddest ones of which I'm aware is Ben C. Pratt Six Mile Cypress Parkway in Fort Myers, Florida. I don't know why it has such a long name and I've never bothered to ask our relatives there whether they know.
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Old Road to 9 Acre Corner, Concord, MA
Seven Star Rd., Groveland, MA
I assume you're excluding ordinals?
Yes, of course, exclude ordinals.
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.
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.
There is a Six Mile Hill Road outside Kamloops, BC. (I found it searching for a name that I thought I'd remembered in Michigan, but I didn't find that one.)
Twenty Mule Team Rd (old US 466, old CA 58).
Also in California, though i'm not sure it would count, No Name Uno: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gzC31Rc1A9YrrkQR7
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.
More so in metro Detroit. the lowest signed is 5 Mile, while the highest signed mile road is 37 Mile road in Macomb County. The Mile roads in Detroit is miles from Downtown Detroit.
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 18, 2024, 03:42:21 PM
One of the oddest ones of which I'm aware is Ben C. Pratt Six Mile Cypress Parkway in Fort Myers, Florida. I don't know why it has such a long name and I've never bothered to ask our relatives there whether they know.
It's thought to be the approximate distance to Fort Myers from the camp on the slough (https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ingraham/expedition/SixMile.htm), as noted during the Ingraham Expedition (to plan a Miami-to-Ft. Myers railway). Though they seemed to be off by a mile, but it kind of makes sense, based on distances.
I think the memorial name was added on much more recently.
Seven Hills Road (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2545176,-91.5850352,3a,26.7y,150.78h,85.46t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sDd4qrMHv48eFCNrkJH6sJw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DDd4qrMHv48eFCNrkJH6sJw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D179.03609%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) in northern Linn County.
Three Bridges Road (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0494797,-92.8197803,3a,15.7y,131.2h,85.44t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sk1bD7UJonMAESn1w5huupA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dk1bD7UJonMAESn1w5huupA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D259.3442%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) east of Marshalltown.
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 18, 2024, 03:42:21 PM
One of the oddest ones of which I'm aware is Ben C. Pratt Six Mile Cypress Parkway in Fort Myers, Florida. I don't know why it has such a long name and I've never bothered to ask our relatives there whether they know.
Is there a common way to shorten that name? It wouldn't fit within the UPS limit of 30 characters in the address line. It would fit with the USPS limit of 46 characters.
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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.
Also a Four Rod Rd in Berlin, CT
Ten Acre Rd, New Britain. CT
The traffic circle where NJ Routes 70 & 72 meet is known as the Four Mile Circle. Four Mile is also an unincorporated community located within Woodland Twp, Burlington County, NJ.
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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.
There are two variants of this in my area, Five Mile Line Rd and Fairport Nine Mile Point Rd. Still probably not what you are looking for, but both are random one-offs and not part of a numbering system, so I figured I would throw them out there.
I don't know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for since they're not unusual or unique names, but old highway alignments with names along the lines of "Old Hwy ___" would also be examples of numbers in names that aren't part of an ordered system (Unless you count the route number itself as part of an ordered system).
Quote from: IowaTraveler on February 18, 2024, 07:24:06 PM
I don't know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for since they're not unusual or unique names, but old highway alignments with names along the lines of "Old Hwy ___" would also be examples of numbers in names that aren't part of an ordered system (Unless you count the route number itself as part of an ordered system).
Again, a Google Maps search turns up lots of "Old Hwy ___" and "Old Route ___" all over the place, so I would rule those out.
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).
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 18, 2024, 03:42:21 PM
One of the oddest ones of which I'm aware is Ben C. Pratt Six Mile Cypress Parkway in Fort Myers, Florida. I don't know why it has such a long name and I've never bothered to ask our relatives there whether they know.
Honorific street names tend to be uncompromising with regard to length.
7th Standard Road near Bakersfield:
https://www.bakersfield.com/archives/ask-tbc-how-did-seventh-standard-road-get-its-name/article_69b7c36c-dcdd-5559-8cd4-862178562f53.html#:~:text=Seventh%20Standard%20Road%20lies%20on,are%20generally%2024%20miles%20apart.
I remember, before the area was rebuilt, there was a exit On I-75 near Dayton OH for Stop Eight road
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 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Six+Mile,+AL+35670/@34.4253096,-86.7622675,15z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8889d79dd364a007:0xab9eefeb32038c8e!8m2!3d34.423983!4d-86.756388!16s%2Fg%2F11bv3z4yl6?entry=ttu) right around there.
There's also a 2nd Hill Road in Walker County, AL, just southeast of Nauvoo.
Four Seasons Drive in Ruckersville, VA is named after the neighborhood is serves.
I really like Tu-Lane Street (https://maps.app.goo.gl/pVK2B7sY8Qk7em9P7) in Kitchener, ON.
There is Five Points Road near West Chester, PA
Quote from: Dough4872 on February 18, 2024, 11:24:17 PM
There is Five Points Road near West Chester, PA
There is also a Five Points Road through Kingston, Illinois. (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.094114,-88.7650198,15z?entry=ttu)
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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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.
Quote from: GaryV on February 18, 2024, 04:21:18 PM
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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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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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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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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.
129th Infantry Drive in Joliet, Illinois. IDOT managed (what else?) to screw it up (at Jefferson Street/US-52) and had to add greenout later: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CGCw3EeBiT63aN5X9
At Black Road: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BqUuEgsqH91BGRDq9
On a normal street blade: https://maps.app.goo.gl/y6yVguZw7xmk6Ky97
Three Degree Rd. (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.544774,-80.035703,16.83z?entry=ttu) just north of Pittsburgh, PA
There's a Six Forks Rd. in Raleigh, NC.
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.
Circle Seven Drive in Glendale, CA
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1595193,-118.2868428,3a,15.4y,150.07h,90.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9_71-EmI1wv7HsY4uZfg1A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D9_71-EmI1wv7HsY4uZfg1A%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D343.68442%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
It is named as such because the TV studios for L.A.'s channel 7 are on the street.
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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Circle Seven Drive in Glendale, CA
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1595193,-118.2868428,3a,15.4y,150.07h,90.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9_71-EmI1wv7HsY4uZfg1A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D9_71-EmI1wv7HsY4uZfg1A%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D343.68442%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
It is named as such because the TV studios for L.A.'s channel 7 are on the street.
In that vein, we can go with Spanish for Uno Circle in Joliet, Illinois as the street was named due to the headquarters of International Games, the one-time producer of the game Uno.
Street view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iSUCxQZbUPRTsLNr7
Former International Games HQ: https://maps.app.goo.gl/JhMZ7mxiHroRVrd18
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.
1,000,000,000,000,000 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/oLvFtLT6RVDzztG8A)
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1,000,000,000,000,000 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/oLvFtLT6RVDzztG8A)
No. Bad form. You, out, now.
It's named after the town with the same name, but part of CA-62 is designated as "29 Palms Highway".
The money: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2LofHk2nkGarPc7G8
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".
Yep.
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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.
The Nine Mile Road in Henrico County is not part of a system of "X Mile Road" streets.
In Clarksville, MD, there's Ten Oaks Rd.
45 Road in Snohomish County, WA is named because it runs at a 45-degree angle relative to the rest of the grid.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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:
Five Points Street marks the border between far NW Detroit and Redford Township:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ytVdrPdNPUx9nDgG7
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
There is a Nine Foot Road outside Greenwood, DE, not to be confused with 9 Foot Road outside Dagsboro, DE. Both in Sussex County.
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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.
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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.
Highway 7 in York Region (it is no longer a provincial highway, but the name stuck)
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.
^^ 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
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.
Fourth Section Rd. (NY 31A) near Brockport, NY.
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1971326,-78.0023843,15z?authuser=0&entry=ttu
Million Dollar Highway (NY 31) in Medina, NY.
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2232639,-78.3586482,15z?authuser=0&entry=ttu