Numbered Streets that do not have all the numbers

[Takumi]

Petersburg has a Third St, Fourth St, and Fifth St downtown, but Second St became an extended Adams St during the last decade when some areas in downtown were reconstructed. Oddly, First St and Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Streets are east of there and run east-west instead of the north-south of Adams, Third, Fourth, and Fifth.

[JustDrive]

Ventura, California has an Eighth Street for no apparent reason.  Seahawk Street nearby was once known as Third Street.

Santa Paula, CA's numbering grid starts at 4th Street and ends at 14th.

[Bickendan]

Portland doesn't have SW/NW 7th Ave (it's Broadway) or SW 8th (SW Park). SE/NE 4th is MLK, 5th is Grand. SE/NE 39th is César Chavez Blvd (though SE 39th as 39th does exist in Milwaukie). Further out on the grid, it starts to get hit and miss because the grid starts switching to the suburban style, so the street after SE 171st Ave could easily be 174th with no instance of 173rd occurring. Likewise, that far out, the grid starts overlapping with the suburb's grids -- SE 190th Ave, SE 202nd Ave/Birdsdale Ave, Gresham named avenues, SE Wallula (212th Ave), etc...
the major arteries at that point maintain a dual identity with Portland's numbered avenues and Gresham's named avenues (223rd/Eastman, 242nd/Hogan, 257th/Kane) and eventually sortof return to the Portland grid... out to 502nd Ave; the address grid stays constant that far east -- out to 750xx on the road continuing past I-84's exit 35 with OR 100/Hist US 30; 650xx-675xx in Welches on US 26.

The westside has a collision between the Portland numbered avenues and Hillsboro's, leading to amusing instances of SW 234th Ave, SE 67th Ave, SW 240th, SE 62nd and into exclusive Hillsboro numbers into downtown... and then SW 308th Ave.
The highest address I've found out that was was a 40xxx.

[brownpelican]

My town's numbered streets grid starts at 7th Avenue and go to 21st Ave...in the middle of town.

[Kacie Jane]

Could have sworn I posted here, but it must have been on a similar thread.

Bellingham's only numbered streets are mostly in old Fairhaven, although the grid does continue east from there.  The grid starts at 4th Street, then 6th, then 8th.  From 8th through 48th, they all exist, but once you get past 24th, it's difficult to near impossible to find a cross street that intersects more than a couple of them in a row.

[flowmotion]

Does anyone know of a town that intentionally skipped 13th Street?

San Francisco CA renamed 13th Avenue to Funston Ave. There is still a 13th Street though, mostly underneath the US 101 Central Fwy.

[mgk920]

The city of Chicago's current lowest number is 8th St. 10th St, 12th St and 22nd St don't exist anymore. 10th never existed. 12th is now Roosevelt Rd and 22nd is now Cermak Rd. 39th St is also called Pershing Rd but still is locally refered to as 39th. Same with 55th St (Garfield Blvd) and 63rd St (Marquette Blvd).  Here is a historical map of Chicago in 1910. Notice that 8th, 9th, and 11th have different names on the historical map. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/chi1900/G4104-C6-1910-R3-N.html

22nd does very much exist.  Outside the city, we don't use the name "Cermak", and 55th and 63rd are very much in use.

Marquette Rd is more like a route - it traversed 66th and 67th streets and is signed as Marquette Rd on both.  55th is signed Garfield only between MLK and Western; the rest in the city is signed as 55th.  We always called it 55th because that is what is was by us.  Marquette was called Marquette.  Pershing was called 39th or Pershing.  Probably because on the south side, we were accustomed to numbers on E-W streets unlike the north side.   

Brendan

Chicago also has streets named 'Avenue B' though 'Avenue O'.  What would be 'Avenue A' is called 'State Line Rd'.  Also, part of 'Avenue K' is called 'Ewing Ave'.

Mike

[KEK Inc.]

Most numbered street systems are reliant on the cross-streets' addresses, so that's why municipalities may start with high numbers since their city centers may have street names where the lower numbers would be. 

[kphoger]

We used to live in Herrin, Illinois, where north-south streets are numbered.  The numbers increase from east to west,  rather than outward from a central line; the main drag, called Park Ave, is essentially 15th Street.  There are no numbered streets east of 3rd Street.  In fact, what could have been called 2nd Street, in a newer neighborhood near our house, was instead called Legacy Drive, and an even newer neighborhood east of there used royal-themed street names.  It was interesting to give people directions to our house, as it was a little complicated:

Turn right on Stotlar.
Look for numbered streets; they will increase as you drive, but they don't start with 1st Street.
The only two you will actually see are 4th and 5th Streets.
We live on 6th Street, but there's no sign for it:  it's the one after 4th and 5th.

When my dad visited, he was driving so slowly, in order to not miss our street, that people behind him were none too happy.

[1995hoo]

Brooklyn has numbered avenues, but in Bay Ridge the streets that would be 1st Avenue and 2d Avenue are named Colonial Road and Ridge Boulevard instead. The first numbered avenue in that area is therefore 3d Avenue, well-known for all its restaurants and pubs. Ridge Boulevard connects to 2d Avenue where it passes under the Belt Parkway, but 1st Avenue and Colonial Road do not connect. They may have at some time in the past, but railroad tracks now use part of the right-of-way between the two streets. 1st Avenue is in an industrial area near the docks and doesn't really go anywhere at either end. My mother grew up in Bay Ridge and she says my grandfather used to take her to 1st Avenue when he was teaching her to drive. He died many years ago, but I seem to recall him saying that the different names in Bay Ridge were intended to make the streets sound more appealing as places to live. I suppose that's not totally implausible given that the neighborhood was originally named "Yellow Hook" but was renamed in the mid-1800s after a yellow fever outbreak.

[Mark68]

Portland doesn't have SW/NW 7th Ave (it's Broadway) or SW 8th (SW Park). SE/NE 4th is MLK, 5th is Grand. SE/NE 39th is César Chavez Blvd (though SE 39th as 39th does exist in Milwaukie). Further out on the grid, it starts to get hit and miss because the grid starts switching to the suburban style, so the street after SE 171st Ave could easily be 174th with no instance of 173rd occurring. Likewise, that far out, the grid starts overlapping with the suburb's grids -- SE 190th Ave, SE 202nd Ave/Birdsdale Ave, Gresham named avenues, SE Wallula (212th Ave), etc...
the major arteries at that point maintain a dual identity with Portland's numbered avenues and Gresham's named avenues (223rd/Eastman, 242nd/Hogan, 257th/Kane) and eventually sortof return to the Portland grid... out to 502nd Ave; the address grid stays constant that far east -- out to 750xx on the road continuing past I-84's exit 35 with OR 100/Hist US 30; 650xx-675xx in Welches on US 26.

The westside has a collision between the Portland numbered avenues and Hillsboro's, leading to amusing instances of SW 234th Ave, SE 67th Ave, SW 240th, SE 62nd and into exclusive Hillsboro numbers into downtown... and then SW 308th Ave.
The highest address I've found out that was was a 40xxx.

What's really interesting is when the Portland grid meets the downtown Gresham grid, for instance, the corner of SE 182nd Ave & NW 1st St. SE numbered N/S avenues (main Portland grid) & NW/SW numbered E/W streets (Gresham grid). This mainly occurs south of Division St, with Powell Blvd being the N/S divider for Gresham (thru most of Portland it forms the 3500 SE block, but is curvy thru E Portland, east of I-205).

[Mark68]

In Garden Grove, CA, there are 6th-9th Streets. These are the only numbered streets in the area, and what it looks like is that these correspond to the 6th-9th blocks east of Main St, north of Garden Grove Blvd (with 9th St continuing north into Anaheim).

[Roadgeek Adam]

Edison Township, NJ, the township that borders my borough, has a North Eighth Avenue randomly in 1 section of town, only because its a continuation of Highland Park's North 8th Avenue.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Downtown St. Paul MN has a relatively small area with numbered streets. There are no numbers lower than 3rd, and West 7th St. intersects both 6th and 5th Streets, which curve to meet it.

[vtk]

Columbus doesn't have a First St – if it did, it would probably take the place of Neil Ave and/or Whittier St.  Going east from there you have Civic Center Dr, Marconi Blvd, 2nd St, Front St, High St (which passes through the "origin"), then the numbered streets continue, with named streets and avenues inserted sporadically between consecutive-numbered streets.

We also have numbered avenues starting with 1st Ave, but they begin considerably north of the origin, so Broad St would be approximately Negative Fifteenth Ave if it were numbered in that series

[tdindy88]

Indianapolis' numbered streets begin at 9th and continue northward to 296th in Hamilton County. Once one gets north of the Broad Ripple area, some of the numbered streets don't appear, but they are implied to be in their proper place if the street existed. Once you get into Hamilton County, only the streets that end in a 1 or a 6 appear. The first eight streets though would be some of the original street-named streets that were plated out with the city in 1825 (Ohio, New York, Michigan, Vermont and North) plus a few others. What I'm not entirely sure about is whether the numbered streets (since the addresses correlate with them, such as 1000 N. Meridan being at 10th Street) are based off Washington Street (where the addressing system is based off of) or Market Street (which if you count the blocks from 10th Street southward would be the 0 Street in the grid.

[Mark68]

Denver has two sets of numbered streets, most of the grid is on a standard N/S/E/W pattern, with the E/W streets north of Ellsworth Ave (the zero line) being numbered avenues corresponding with the block numbers north of Ellsworth (except Colfax Ave, which would be 15th Ave, but was renamed for Ulysses S Grant's vice president, Schuyler Colfax).

However, downtown runs on a diagonal from the main grid, based on the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. The streets that trend NW/SE are numbered streets, with the first one remaining being 4th St. Some of the numbers get skipped between 4th & 13th because they are located on the Auraria Campus (UC-Denver/Metro State College/CC of Denver), and the original 1st-3rd probably got eliminated with the construction of the Colfax Viaduct and the interchange between Colfax, Auraria Pkwy, & I-25.