Hoosier and Gary, wher the heck are you? I'm up in South Bend.
Our North/South County roads are all tree names starting with Ash, Beech, Cedar, etc.. in the east working alphabetically to the west. The East/West roads are all people names starting with Adams, Brick, Cleveland, etc.. in the north working alphabetically to the south.
The county to our east uses county road numbers for all roads, like CR1, CR2, etc.. but they are kind of mixed up, especially the diagonal roads. Not much sense to it.
The county to our west uses the 700N, 700S, 700E, 700W system and it is pretty good because you always know how many miles you are from the center of the county.
The county to our south kept the same tree names as ours for the north/south roads, which is great. They use numbers for the east/west roads.
To our north is the great state of michigan. All of the roads are just names of the towns that they connect or random lakes, woods and people. Makes absolutely no sense at all. Even the people that live there have trouble getting around.
As far as townships in our county go ours are German, Warren, Olive, Portage(most of the city of South Bend), Greene, Penn, Harriss and Madison, and maybe I missed one or two. There are seperate volunteer/paid fire departments in the townships as well as paid in the cities. All of the departments co-operate with each other, and it is not unusual to see 3 or 4 fire departments at a fire. Not a bad system, but lots of politics.
Each township used to have its own elementary and high school as well. Those have all been taken over by 3 or 4 school corporations back when busing came into play. Most were converted to township halls or left to rot. One, at the end of my street, became a church/school.
