The Lot Across From the High?

[cqholt]

The rule of thumb I've used, which has usually worked for me, is that there is a quadrant system based on roughly on the Interstates. I-20 divides north and south. Then I-85 or I-75 divide east west. Netsirk's example leads me to rethink this, though in the city itself, it has proven helpful to me, despite exceptions.

Incorrect, the dividing line jumps around. Eg: Atlanta that is in DeKalb County(east of Moreland Ave) its Hosea L. Williams Drive NE that divides North from South.
The N-S is Peachtree Street thru Downtown then west Peachtree in Midtown.

[atler8]

Bryant
I just noticed something else in your post that is incorrect. The direction the road is going is not the end-all be-all reason behind whether a ne, nw, se or sw is assigned to a road.
Rather, it is assigned in relation to where the street lies in reference to the central grid point used in that locality.
I know that this is a fact because near where I work in midtown, if you look on a good map that shows the 4 grid quadrants & notes them for easy visual reference by shading them on the map, you can see that W. Peachtree St. lies on the north south dividing grid line that comes out of downtown Atlanta & thus W. Peachtree is the quadrant divider in midtown for ne & nw Atlanta.
But when Peachtree & W. Peachtree combine north of my office at Pershing Point, the dividing grid begins to follow the course of Peachtree as you head north.
When I lived at 1708 Peachtree near the Masonic Temple in the 1980's, I was located on the west side of Peachtree in the nw quadrant & had a nw on my address, as in 1708 Peachtree St. NW. Across the street from us on the east side of Peachtree, the addresses were all denoted with a "ne" & that is still the case today as the grid lines to mark the quadrants are set in stone & do not change.

[atler8]

cqholt
You are correct regarding Hosea Williams Drive being the quadrant dividing line in much of eastern Atlanta. In that Dekalb County portion of the City of Atlanta, it effectively denotes streets there as to whether they are ne or se addresses.
And you are also correct regarding the downtown & midtown dividing line being on Peatree & W. Peachtree.
That all dovetails with my previous post here a few moments ago that was in reply to what bryant had claimed.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by atler8

cqholt
You are correct regarding Hosea Williams Drive being the quadrant dividing line in much of eastern Atlanta. In that Dekalb County portion of the City of Atlanta, it effectively denotes streets there as to whether they are ne or se addresses.
And you are also correct regarding the downtown & midtown dividing line being on Peatree & W. Peachtree.
That all dovetails with my previous post here a few moments ago that was in reply to what bryant had claimed.

Yes.
Also, Edgewood Ave is the dividing line in Atlanta, east of downtown but west of Moreland.

[bryantm3]

for anyone who didn't catch it, my post was pretty tongue-in-cheek.

[atler8]

Really now... Could have fooled me.
I say that because a lot of folks around here have no earthly idea as to how the addresses are laid our or denoted.

[samiwas1]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

for anyone who didn't catch it, my post was pretty tongue-in-cheek.

I think I'm the only one who caught that!

Originally Posted by atler8

Really now... Could have fooled me.
I say that because a lot of folks around here have no earthly idea as to how the addresses are laid our or denoted.

I was looking the other day at how Salt Lake City does their street names and addresses. They are numbered in a grid system, using hundreds and thousands. Then they divide east and west and north and south. So an address can be 4713 West 2856 South. I guess it can make things easy to find based on a numbering system, but man it's hard to say or remember!

[netsirk]

Originally Posted by samiwas1

I was looking the other day at how Salt Lake City does their street names and addresses. They are numbered in a grid system, using hundreds and thousands. Then they divide east and west and north and south. So an address can be 4713 West 2856 South. I guess it can make things easy to find based on a numbering system, but man it's hard to say or remember!

Well, as weird as I find Atlanta's system, I think I'll take it over that. Thanks to everyone who took on this topic...I feel a lot better now.

[junimar]

Thanks for the clarifications. I actually had Moreland in mind when I said there were "notable exceptions," and all of this helps a lot.