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[Hank S]

In my Private Drive hell, the Drives and houses on the highways were numbered somehow having to do with distance from the county seat some 40-odd miles away. I lived on Private Drive 13751, a quarter mile off the highway; the neighbors on the State Highway had a similar house number; our town had a population of just under 1000 souls.

The nicest description i can think of is "¡estupido!"

 

[N5922S]

And I've had a salesman insist I needed to buy that cord for a GAS dryer.

Um, and just what is it that powers the motor that spins the drum on the GAS dryer???

 

[cowman]

When our county got 911 we switched from route and box numbers to numbered township and county roads. Complete cluster. No rhyme or reason to the number. And if you had a driveway more than 350' long it became a numbered private drive. So the address went from being
rt..5 box 517 to
345 private drive 1127 county road 8.

Rumor has it a lady called 911 after the switch and then died waiting on the ambulance because they couldn't find her until they got her old rt number.

They did something like that here too and nobody knows where any of these numbered streets are. Google has some completely different street numbers and most of the time can't locate anything.

Last year I had my water quit working so I called the water department... you'd think they'd know where my house is since they have pipes going to it but they had no clue from address or account information for some reason. I started giving the guy directions on how to get here using major area highways and landmarks... suddenly he asks is that _____'s old place? And it was. You still have locate some things by who lives where... or lived somewhere 10 years ago.

Even better they put up some signs with actual road names in a few spots except I'm guessing nobody actually talked to any locals because they put the wrong names on the wrong roads.

 

[EdFred]

Um, and just what is it that powers the motor that spins the drum on the GAS dryer???

Electricity but not through a 220V cord.

 

[tree96]

In my Private Drive hell, the Drives and houses on the highways were numbered somehow having to do with distance from the county seat some 40-odd miles away. I lived on Private Drive 13751, a quarter mile off the highway; the neighbors on the State Highway had a similar house number; our town had a population of just under 1000 souls.

The nicest description i can think of is "¡estupido!"

I heard that county road 1, or old us 52, or the old road as we called, it became county road one because it is the Longest county road in the county. Greasy ridge is county road 2 because it is the second longest and so on. That almost makes sense. Even though they are miles apart. But the others are a complete cluster.

Your house number supposedly came from however many yards you were from whatever arbitrary point they decided was the starting point for your road,which makes sense. But why we couldn't have street names instead of numbers is beyond me. My old neighborhood had roads 1097, 1098, 1096. 1095 is way out close to where you guys lived. And 1099 is the other side of a subdivision next to my new house.
But this is also the same county who makes the road crew lift the mower and not cut the grass alongside the county road that runs in front of our airport that the commissioners wanted to sell, just because.

 

[denverpilot]

Cheyenne Wells in eastern Colorado has the weirdest system that I've seen..... the roads numbers all radiate out from the town center, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.... the first block in all directions is 1st St., then the second block is all 2nd St., and so on....addresses wind up being something like 325 N 4th W., which would be in the 3rd block of 4th north of 1st and west of the town hall in the middle...if someone swapped the directional parts of the address it got interesting.

Same thing in Utah, but the street numbness radiate out from the Mormon temples.

Google isn't to be trusted. If you don't play by their rules they don't return updated results or your website, and it goes beyond SEO. Had a looooooong talk with a specialist on why this was the case with Google, and it makes me dislike and distrust them even more.

We've been trying to convince them that a domain name we host's actual business isn't in our building for years. Not much of a problem until the idiots started displaying that company name on one of our phone numbers after they sucked our address and phone number off of the bottom of their webpage as the web designers, and started using that information for "Caller ID" on Android devices. They create their own Garbage for GIGO.