Moss when did the roads get renamed to fit that system. Western Indiana with state plane coordinate system was fun to work on. When they add a street do they have in fit alphabetical with adjacent streets.
I remember old exit system for highways in Florida with exit numbers being consecutive, new exits we're given letter in addition to number
Don't know when it all got laid out. They are all exactly 1 mile apart for the most part. There are a few diagonal roads, and a few that follow rivers/streams. Basically, there's 640 acres in a square mile. I blame farmers for the orderly layout! :laughing:
Any roads added in between early on still had the lettering system, like pine, pear and peach. Since WWII when subdivisions started, however, there's been no rhyme or reason to the street naming, other than they are not called roads. Only the mains are roads. The rest are drives, streets, lanes, etc...
Where it gets tricky is inside all of the massive subdivisions. SOOOO many... :laughing:
We have two major cities and several smaller towns. Only county addresses have 5 digits. Most city addresses have 4 digits(don't know how they handle annexed properties). We know the dividing N-S street is Main street in the two major cities, and we know the E-W dividing streets in both. And you can figure each 100 block is one block from the center of town. So you just have to ask are you North, South, East or West. Example, 3525 West Washington is 35 blocks from the center of town, on the north side of the street.
Stuff like that my dad showed me and I showed my kids. None of their friends have a clue. Fire up the cellphone and google the address and off they go. Really, though, the kids still know how to get places. It's just a different skill set.
