Highest numbered address in USA

[michgc]

The house I grew up in in Pennsylvania had an address of 4. All of the streets around us had one- and two-digit addresses. If we were writing out an invitation, my mother said to spell out the one-digit addresses: Eight Thomas Road. She said it was more prestigious that way.

[TimCity2000]

growing up, i lived at house number 14001... in a cul-de-sac of maybe 15 houses total haha.

like, why not 1401 or even 401?

[woxyroxme]

Numbers are assigned by the post office based on a grid that has a certain intersection as it’s center point, the further north or south for streets running north/south or further east or west on streets running east/west from the zero line the higher the number. If the streets are laid out in a grid then they will be numbered in increments of 100 based on the distance from the zero line, one block may have addresses going 2, 4, 6, 8 and the next block over will be 100, 102, 104, 106.

If an area is 1 mile north of the zero line and 1/2 miles west of the zero line then the east west running streets could have numbers in the 400s and the north south running streets could have numbers in the 700s.

There will be a different center point for the grids for each zip code.

[Prickly Pear]

Originally Posted by new2colo

The Phoenix area has addresses that are in the 40000 range.

Maricopa County almost entirely does their street grid around Phoenix, except Mesa and SE Valley which developed independently.

1000 = 1 mile north/south/east/west of Central Avenue OR Washington street, depending on road direction
N S E W = Designation as being north of south of Washington, or East or West of Central
Numbered street = N/S road east of central
Numbered avenue = N/S road west of central
# roads = how many blocks west or east of central
Named road = E/W road
100s = how many blocks in from the nearest mile (idea is 10 blocks per mile)
10s and 1s = how many properties in from nearest street intersection
Odd number = south or east side of road
Even number = north or west side of road

For an example. 5815 N 7th Street = 5 miles and 8 blocks north of Washington Ave, 7 blocks east of Central Ave, about 15 parcels north of 7th street and Palo Verde Rd on the east side of the road.

57885 W Butterfield Stage Rd Dateland, AZ = 57 miles and 8 blocks west of Central Avenue, 85 parcels from nearest intersection (makes sense since farmland), on southside of Butterfield Stage. This is the furthest west address I can find.

579th Avenue is the furthest marker before Phoenix’s numbering system dies out going west and it changes going into La Paz county.

51245 N 35th Ave New River, AZ = 51 miles and 2 blocks north of Washington Ave, 35 blocks west of Central Ave, on east side of 35th Ave.

Can you imagine a Connecticut or NJ sized area using one numbering system? The west can! I can’t find anything higher than 50000 (60+ miles out from Downtown)

[mike0421]

Originally Posted by Prickly Pear

Maricopa County almost entirely does their street grid around Phoenix, except Mesa and SE Valley which developed independently.

1000 = 1 mile north/south/east/west of Central Avenue OR Washington street, depending on road direction
N S E W = Designation as being north of south of Washington, or East or West of Central
Numbered street = N/S road east of central
Numbered avenue = N/S road west of central
# roads = how many blocks west or east of central
Named road = E/W road
100s = how many blocks in from the nearest mile (idea is 10 blocks per mile)
10s and 1s = how many properties in from nearest street intersection
Odd number = south or east side of road
Even number = north or west side of road

For an example. 5815 N 7th Street = 5 miles and 8 blocks north of Washington Ave, 7 blocks east of Central Ave, about 15 parcels north of 7th street and Palo Verde Rd on the east side of the road.

57885 W Butterfield Stage Rd Dateland, AZ = 57 miles and 8 blocks west of Central Avenue, 85 parcels from nearest intersection (makes sense since farmland), on southside of Butterfield Stage. This is the furthest west address I can find.

579th Avenue is the furthest marker before Phoenix’s numbering system dies out going west and it changes going into La Paz county.

51245 N 35th Ave New River, AZ = 51 miles and 2 blocks north of Washington Ave, 35 blocks west of Central Ave, on east side of 35th Ave.

Can you imagine a Connecticut or NJ sized area using one numbering system? The west can! I can’t find anything higher than 50000 (60+ miles out from Downtown)

Someone who lives in Connecticut or NJ and has never lived life outside of it can't even begin to wrap themselves around the notion of living in the desert southwest. The Phoenix area could continue to annex land indefinitely. Connecticut and NJ, in contrast, are completely infilled with the exception of the Pine Barrens.

[jidanni]

One notes 537925 US-95, Bonners Ferry, ID 83805, USA, at mile 537 on US-95 .
Which is even higher than the (non USA, but still) six-digit examples in the Saskatchewan Provincial Standard System of Rural Addressing.