In San Francisco, there are a series of streets that go from Anza, Balboa, Cabrillo... and ends with Taraval, Ulloa, Vicente and Wawona.
http://goo.gl/maps/bFVF9 (http://goo.gl/maps/bFVF9)
Another series runs from Amador to Yosemite, and from Armstrong to Meade
http://goo.gl/maps/75qQR (http://goo.gl/maps/75qQR)
In San Diego there is Everett, Franklin, (Ocean View), Harrison, Irving, Julian, Kearney, Logan, (National) and Newton
http://goo.gl/maps/TO5fl (http://goo.gl/maps/TO5fl)
Meanwhile, in Silverwater there is Adderley, Beaconsfield, Carnarvon, Derby, Egerton, Fariola and Giffard Sts
http://goo.gl/maps/jhKii (http://goo.gl/maps/jhKii)
Any other examples where this happens?
Minneapolis and its suburbs to the west go through about three iterations of the alphabet. The most interesting choices are for the "X" streets (Xylon and Ximines being my favorites).
In St. Joseph Co. Indiana, major county roads, at one-mile intervals, are in alphabetic order, starting at the north and east edges of the county. As a bonus, east-west roads are named for historical figures and north south roads for trees. (That gets the county mention in the "themed" road names thread as well.)
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples of alphabetical names, but the other that comes immediately to mind are all those that have streets named for letters, like A St., B St., C St., etc. They are always in order, of course. Elwood, Indiana (http://goo.gl/maps/oq7PC) takes it to the extreme, with every street, except for the dividers, named with a letter or number.
A lot of examples were given in this thread:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=5480.0
Meanwhile, the original subdivision Alamitos Beach district of Long Beach had the following:
Alamitos, Bonito, Cerritos, Descanso, Esperanza, Falcon, Gaviota, Hermosa, Independence, Junipero, Kaweah, Lindero, Modejska, Naranja, Ojai, Paloma, Quito, Redondo, Sobrate and Termino.
Since then, Descanso, Independence, Naranja, Quito and Sobrate were tied into the street grid to the north, so they became extensions of Orange, Cherry, Temple, Coronado, and Loma, respectively.
Kaweah, Modjeska, and Ojai were renamed Keenebec, Molino and Orizaba - unsure why.
Tulsa OK: N-S streets east of the river go up alphabetically from the river with names being cities east of the Mississippi, with a couple exceptions. N-S streets west of the river go up alphabetically from the river with names being cities west of the Mississippi.
Washington, DC. Duh.
(They actually go to words after the first sequence of letters.)
The Twin Rivers development in East Windsor, NJ does this, separately on each side of NJ-33. On the south side they have an "-on" suffix as a theme; the first three streets are: Abbington, Bennington, Covington. They have both an Evanston and Edison Drive, since the development was expanded in the early '80s.
This seems to happen a lot more often than you might think, if even for just 3 letters or so.
Quote from: NE2 on May 08, 2013, 09:44:00 PM
Washington, DC. Duh.
(They actually go to words after the first sequence of letters.)
Not only that, but I think the first set of alphabetized names are 1 syllable, the next one 2 syllables, and the one after that 3.
Chicago has a series of alphabetically-ordered street names. Instead of being streets A* through Z*, there are a series of K's, followed by a series of L's, followed by a series of M's, and so going west from Pulaski Road (aka Crawford Avenue).
Denver and suburbs do this as well. Moving east from Colorado Blvd., there are 2 sets of N-S alphabetically-ordered street names. Moving west from Broadway, there are 4 such sets.
Off of US-6 just east of Downtown Lorain, OH, there is a stretch where streets named after (the then 49) states in alphabetical order from Alabama to Montana.
In Grand Junction/Mesa County, CO, county roads which run east-west are in alphabetical order by the mile (A Road, B Road, C Road, etc...). For county roads in between the alphabetical miles, they use fractions (C-1/2 Road, H-1/4 Road, H-3/8 Road, J-1/10 Road).
I'd hate to live on any of the county roads between F and G Roads: "I live on F-3/4 Road". (Think About It!!!) :crazy:
As noted in the OP, San Diego has examples of this. In addition to the set linked in the OP (in the Logan Heights area of San Diego), there are other sets of alphabetically ordered street names as follows:
- Downtown/Middletown/South Park (Ash to Walnut - east-west streets/ordered south to north)
- Ocean Beach (Abbott to Guizot - north-south streets/ordered west to east)
- La Jolla (Culver to Ivanhoe - north-south streets/ordered west to east)
- Point Loma/Loma Portal (Addison to Zola and Alcott to Lytton - north-south streets/ordered west to east)
- Pacific Beach (Allison [now Mission Blvd] to Randall - north-south streets/ordered west to east)
- Downtown/Southcrest (A to C, Broadway, E to G, Market, Island, J to L, Imperial, Commercial, ..., and then T and Z Streets follow in what appears to be their appropriate slots with other named streets in between, followed by several east-west streets named after Greek letters starting with Alpha and ending with Eta - east-west streets/ordered south to north)
- Mission Beach (the ___ Court "sidewalk" east-west streets are clustered alphabetically from south to north)
I am sure there are more examples in San Diego beyond these.
Regards,
Andy
Boston's Back Bay has a group of its main streets in alphabetical order A through K: Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, Hereford, Ipswitch, Jersey, Kilmarnock.
Quote from: lepidopteran on May 08, 2013, 10:03:40 PM
Quote from: NE2 on May 08, 2013, 09:44:00 PM
Washington, DC. Duh.
(They actually go to words after the first sequence of letters.)
Not only that, but I think the first set of alphabetized names are 1 syllable, the next one 2 syllables, and the one after that 3.
That is correct. Going north on 16th Street, N.W., the last lettered street encountered is V Street.
The first two-syllable street is Belmont (it "should" be Adams, but Adams Street does not exist at 16th).
The last two-syllable street is Webster.
The first three-syllable street is Allison.
The last three-syllable street is Whittier.
Then come streets named after trees, starting with Aspen.
The last one is Primrose (because after that, D.C. runs out), though there are a few "tree" streets that do not intersect 16th, like Spruce Drive, Tulip Street and Tamarack Street.
Fort Smith, AR has city names, such as Atlanta, Boston and Charlotte that run east-west, beginning at 2900 south. Yuma is last, followed by Zero.
100--2600 south are A, B, C, etc which also run to 2100 North (U St).
I don't think alphabetical street names are all that unusual in general.
The first time I remember noticing them outside of the single-letter street names in Washington, DC, and the single-letter avenues in Brooklyn, NY, would almost certainly have been in the third grade when my soccer team practiced at Ravensworth Elementary in Northern Virginia. Here's a map with the placemark dropped on the school; notice how all the surrounding streets run from "Adair" up to "Slidell." (http://goo.gl/maps/BuUx6) It's so obvious even a little kid couldn't miss it.
I note from the map I just linked that the North Springfield neighborhood located across the Beltway from there (pan to the right on the map) uses a similar system. I'd never noticed that before because I've never gone through that area very often.
Quote from: national highway 1 on May 08, 2013, 08:36:38 PM
In San Diego there is Everett, Franklin, (Ocean View), Harrison, Irving, Julian, Kearney, Logan, (National) and Newton
I wonder what G and M were.
San Diego has several others. in Pacific Beach, both the north-south and the east-west operate on this system.
north-south is minerals: Hornblend (sic), Garnet, Felspar (sic), Emerald, Diamond, [Missouri], Chalcedony, [Law], Beryl, and then several blocks further north we have the disorganized Opal, Tourmaline, Sapphire, Turquoise, and Agate. I do not know why Missouri and Law are so inserted: they are not alleys but full block-separated members of the grid.
east-west is various city leaders: Bayard, Cass, Dawes, Everts, Fanuel, Gresham, Haines, Ingraham, Jewell, Kendall, Lamont, Morrell, Noyes, Olney, Pendleton - at that point the grid breaks down due to geography, but Quincy may be possibly intended to be a member of that collection. I do not know if Mission Boulevard was ever an A, as that is where it logically is in the grid.
in downtown, just north of a standard A-B-C grid, there are plants - mainly trees with a few close-enough exceptions: Ash, Beech, Cedar, Date, Elm, Fir, Grape, Hawthorn, Ivy, Juniper, Kalmia, Laurel, Maple, Nutmeg, Olive, Palm, Quince, Redwood, Spruce, Thorn, Upas, Walnut. Sadly after Walnut are Brookes, Pennsylvania, and Robinson, each of which are fairly regular grid elements just south of the next major arterial: University. I can't think of a tree that starts with X, but xerophyte (a general classification) or xylem (a part of a tree) would not have been so far off the mark as to offend the botanists. then Yew, and maybe Zamia or Zinnia. they definitely dropped the ball on those last three there!
edit: I see Andy beat me to it!
Alphabetical street names are pretty common. See Tulsa, Oklahoma, for another example (X is Xanthus, for those who are interested). Labette County, Kansas, has named their north-south rural roads in alphabetical order, from Allen to York.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on May 09, 2013, 12:42:38 PM
I wonder what G and M were.
For reasons not entirely clear to me, Washington, D.C. omits J, X, Y and Z from its "lettered" streets.
Various explanations have been offered - here (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/42130/why-are-there-no-j-x-y-and-z-streets/) is one.
Coos Bay has two alphabet setups in the original section of the city. The north side uses tree names. The south side uses names of people. These streets run E-W.
Numbered streets run N-S.
Rick
Around Lake Parsippany in NJ, there are several iterations that run from A-J to A-R, running through different NJ place names.
Portland has the Alphabet District that overlaps the Pearl and Uptown, starts with SW Ankeny St, works its way up to NW Xavier St.
Mesa AZ has a series of alphabetically ordered street names. They are most of the east-west streets that run north and south of Main St.
Las Vegas does this a bit interestingly. In the north and western parts of town, alphabetically-ordered street names appear as the names of major section-line and half-section-line arterial roadways, with other random streets in between.
North/south arterials, heading west from Rainbow Blvd:
Tenaya Way (a small portion of this alignment is Antelope Way), Buffalo Dr, Cimarron Rd, Durango Dr, El Capitan Way, Fort Apache Dr, Grand Canyon Dr, Hualapai Way
East/west arterials, heading north from Lone Mountain Road:
Ann Rd, Tropical Pkwy (breaks the pattern, not sure if a 'B' existed here), Centennial Pkwy, Deer Springs Way, Elkhorn Rd, Farm Rd, Grand Teton Dr, Horse Dr, Iron Mountain Road, (J & K are skipped), Log Cabin Way, Moccasin Rd.
In an older section of Las Vegas, there are the letter streets 'A' through 'N'.
Chicago: Belmont, from Cumberland to Pulaski.
Quote from: The High Plains Traveler on May 08, 2013, 08:49:19 PM
Minneapolis and its suburbs to the west go through about three iterations of the alphabet. The most interesting choices are for the "X" streets (Xylon and Ximines being my favorites).
That's not the only alphabetical setup in the Twin Cities area. My old hometown of Cottage Grove followed what unincorporated Washington County does and each mile interval going eastward begins with the next letter of the alphabet, only for some reason, the west edge of Cottage Grove is Geneva Avenue. I know as a kid, I tried figuring out where it would begin, and it was somewhere in Dakota County.
Speaking of Dakota County, they have their own alphabetical system. Inver Grove Heights, technically another old hometown, but I was a baby then, so it shouldn't really count, follows it. Akron Avenue, which goes through Inver Grove, is the dividing line and it goes upward both ways from there east and west.
Many rural counties have an alphabetical setup, which you don't really notice since the roads are a mile apart.
Here in Nebraska, I've noticed a disproportionate number of cities with street names that are simply a letter and they are always in sequence, which would be odd if they weren't.
I just noticed a series of north-south roads in Bellingham, WA:
Cornwall, Dean, Ellis, Franklin, Grant, Humboldt, Iron, James, King, Lincoln, Moore, Nevada, Orleans, Pacific, Queen, Racine, St. Paul, Toledo, Undine, Verona, Valencia, Woburn, Xenia, Yew
no A, B, or Z, and somehow there are two V's, the first of which is located 0.6 blocks or so east of U, and the second a full block east of the first. I dunno what happened there; maybe two independently surveyed grids were unified and that is where the error was absorbed?
Boston (MA) has an alphabetical series in the Back Bay, starting with Arlington Street and ending with Hereford Street.
Quote from: roadman on May 28, 2013, 04:43:03 PM
Boston (MA) has an alphabetical series in the Back Bay, starting with Arlington Street and ending with Hereford Street.
See the 13th post on this thread. You left out Ipswitch, Jersey and Kilmarnock.
This (https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.474788,-0.218868&spn=0.005941,0.016512&t=m&z=17) suburb of London has a small area of alphabet streets.
Quote from: theline on May 08, 2013, 08:54:04 PM
In St. Joseph Co. Indiana, major county roads, at one-mile intervals, are in alphabetic order, starting at the north and east edges of the county. As a bonus, east-west roads are named for historical figures and north south roads for trees. (That gets the county mention in the "themed" road names thread as well.)
Marshall County continues the St. Joseph County names for the North-South roads. Marshall County also uses alphanumeric names for the East-West roads. Roads on the exact mile are numbered for their distance from the north county line (1st Road = 1 mile, 2nd road = 2 miles, etc.). Roads not on the exact mile get a letter suffix based on the nearest 1/4 mile, with A = 1/4 mile, B = 1/2 mile, C = 3/4 mile. So 9B Road is 9 1/2 miles from the county line.
Quote from: SidS1045 on May 29, 2013, 09:39:14 AM
Quote from: roadman on May 28, 2013, 04:43:03 PM
Boston (MA) has an alphabetical series in the Back Bay, starting with Arlington Street and ending with Hereford Street.
See the 13th post on this thread. You left out Ipswitch, Jersey and Kilmarnock.
Arlington through Hereford are parallel streets in sequence from east to west. The next parallel street after Hereford is Mass Ave. One would have to be relatively imaginative to consider Ipswich, Jersey and Kilmarnock as a continuation of the pattern.
I would think Ipswich, Jersey, and Kilmarnock might have been named to go along with Arlington-Hereford, but they don't logically continue the pattern, no. Going west down Boylston/Newbury/CommAve/Marlborough/Beacon, after Hereford you hit Mass Ave, then the grid pretty much ends and you hit Charlesgate then Kenmore Square. Boylston hits Ipswich twice (it's a loop) on each side of the Charlesgate and Fenway, followed by Jersey and Kilmarnock. But it is a different neighborhood (Fenway/Kenmore instead of Back Bay) and the streets aren't even in a continuous grid.
Quote from: kphoger on May 09, 2013, 01:48:07 PM
Alphabetical street names are pretty common. See Tulsa, Oklahoma, for another example (X is Xanthus, for those who are interested). Labette County, Kansas, has named their north-south rural roads in alphabetical order, from Allen to York.
A lot of counties in Kansas have done that. Some name them after other counties (filling in with other words if no county starts with said letter). That's Labette County's pattern (Allen, Brown, Clark, Douglas, Ford...). Neosho County does the same thing. I think both use "Queen" in place of the "Q" county that doesn't exist.
Bourbon County's E-W roads are alphabetical starting at the Crawford County line and going north. The original idea was for the names to have a historic significance but in actuality only a few of them do.
The main roads are Arrowhead, Birch, Calvary, Deer, Eagle, Fern, Grand, Hackberry, Indian, Jayhawk, Kansas, Limestone, Maple, Native, Osage, Poplar, Quail, Range, Soldier, Tomahawk, Unique, Valley, Wagon, Xavier, Yale, and Zinc. Any roads in between are named with the first letter of the major road south of them. The first one is Drywood, which comes between Deer and Eagle.
Logan County names the E-W roads but there are more than 26 major roads, so the 27th is an AA road (Apache Acre) on up to the 32nd road, FF (Fort Fox).
The Nassau Shores neighborhood of Massapequa, NY (where I grew up) has a series of "___water" streets near the bay. Atwater, Brightwater, Clearwater, Deepwater, Edgewater, Fairwater, Greatwater, Highwater, (then they start skipping but without going out of alphabetical order) Leewater, Nearwater, Ripplewater, Stillwater, Tidewater, and Waterview.
Quote from: spooky on May 29, 2013, 01:47:43 PM
Quote from: SidS1045 on May 29, 2013, 09:39:14 AM
Quote from: roadman on May 28, 2013, 04:43:03 PM
Boston (MA) has an alphabetical series in the Back Bay, starting with Arlington Street and ending with Hereford Street.
See the 13th post on this thread. You left out Ipswitch, Jersey and Kilmarnock.
Arlington through Hereford are parallel streets in sequence from east to west. The next parallel street after Hereford is Mass Ave. One would have to be relatively imaginative to consider Ipswich, Jersey and Kilmarnock as a continuation of the pattern.
Not at all. Long before Mass Ave. existed, those three streets were a perfect continuation of the pattern. They've been displaced over the years, but if you go back long enough they were in perfect sequence, alphabetically and geographically.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on May 28, 2013, 04:15:45 PM
I just noticed a series of north-south roads in Bellingham, WA:
Cornwall, Dean, Ellis, Franklin, Grant, Humboldt, Iron, James, King, Lincoln, Moore, Nevada, Orleans, Pacific, Queen, Racine, St. Paul, Toledo, Undine, Verona, Valencia, Woburn, Xenia, Yew
no A, B, or Z, and somehow there are two V's, the first of which is located 0.6 blocks or so east of U, and the second a full block east of the first. I dunno what happened there; maybe two independently surveyed grids were unified and that is where the error was absorbed?
I'm not up on the relevant history, but I mentioned this and three other sequences in Bellingham in an older thread (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=5480.msg120981#msg120981).
My sister's Arlington, Texas, neighborhood features Hibiscus, Iberis, Juniper, Kalmia, Lemon, Myrtle, and Nightshade, which intersect with Osage, Red Birch, Smoke Tree, Tamarack, Umbrella Pine, and Viburnum. This scheme appears to connect to nothing before or after, alphabetically.
In Russellville, Arkansas, streets that are East of AR-7 (Arkansas Ave.) are named, in alphabetical order for cities that are East of the Mississippi river, and the opposite is true for streets that are West of AR-7.
East:
Arkansas
Boston
Cleveland
Detroit
Erie
Frankfort
Greenwich
Hampton
Ithaca
Jackson
Knoxville
Louisville
Mobile
Nashville
Oswego
Pittsburgh
etc.
West:
Arkansas
Boulder
Commerce
Denver
El Paso
Fargo
Glenwood
Houston
Independence
Jonesboro
Keokuk
etc
In Portland's Alphabet District: Alder, Burnside, Couch, Davis, Everett, Flanders, Glisan, Hoyt, Irving, Johnson, Kearney, Lovejoy, Marshall, Northrup, Overton, Pettygrove, Quimby, Raleigh, Savier, Thurman, Upshur, Vaughn, Wilson, Roosevelt (in place of X), York, Reed (in place of Z)
In McMinnville, Oregon: Adams, Baker, Cowls, Davis, Evans, Ford, Galloway, Hembree, Irvine, Johnson, Kirby, Logan, Macy, Newby, Oak. Going the other way from downtown, Alder, Birch, Cedar, Yamhill (in place of D), Elm.
Vancouver, Washington simply has C Street through Z Street. A Street is Main Street, B Street is Broadway. Going the other direction, Washington Street (in place of B), Columbia Street, Daniels Street, Esther Street, Franklin, Grant, Harney, (skips I and J) Kauffman Avenue, then Markle Avenue and Lincoln Avenue in reverse order.
In Hillsboro: Adams, Bailey, Connell, Dennis, Ebbets, Freeman
In Cornelius: Alpine, Beech, Cherry, Dogwood, Elder, Fawn, Ginger, Heather, Ivy, Jasper, Linden, Magnolia, Nectarine, Oleander, Palmetto. Going the other way, Adair, Barlow, Clark, Davis, E is skipped (the Oregon Electric Railway would fit here in the grid), Fremont, Gray, Holladay, Irvine, Joseph, Kamaikan, Lambert.
In Forest Grove: Ash, Birch, Cedar, Douglas, Elm, Filbert, (G is skipped) Hawthorne, Inglewood, Juniper, Kingwood, Larch, Madrona, Maple (M is repeated, N is omitted) Poplar
Canby: Aspen, Birch, Cedar, Douglas, Elm, Fir, Grant, Holly, Ivy, Juniper, Knott, Locust, Lupine (L is repeated), Manzanita, Maple (M is repeated, N is omitted) Oak, Pine, (Q is omitted, in the street grid this would be occupied by the Crown-Zellerbach Logging Road which is now a bike trail), Redwood
It seems to me that Matt Groening used those Portland streets as inspiration for naming characters on The Simpsons. I see Flanders, Lovejoy, and Quimby in there...
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on June 27, 2013, 12:03:17 AM
It seems to me that Matt Groening used those Portland streets as inspiration for naming characters on The Simpsons. I see Flanders, Lovejoy, and Quimby in there...
Only because he was born in Oregon. Plus, he's from Beaverton (which is my hometown as well!)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Matt-Groening-Reveals-the-Location-of-the-Real-Springfield.html