More Than One Way To Number Properties
Different cities handle property addresses differently. In St. Louis the Leather Trades Lofts at 16th & Locust has the address 1600 Locust St. In others, like my hometown of Oklahoma City, it would be 1700 Locust.
Again, not every city numbers properties properties as St. Louis does — though I suspect it is the norm. Here’s an Oklahoma City example:
I grew up three houses South of 62nd Street, our house number began with 63, not 62. Having lived in St. Louis for more than 25 years now, I tend to forget this differences until I’m visiting Oklahoma City and looking for an address.
Tulsa is like St. Louis in how it numbers. Like Oklahoma City, named streets run North-South and numbered streets East-West. Tulsa & Oklahoma City do these differently.
Any other variations you can think of for street addresses?
— Steve Patterson
In many older parts of Denver, Avenues are numbered and run east-west, and streets run north-south and are named, alphabetically, making it pretty easy to narrow things down. And Salt Lake City has a different, “logical” numbering system: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g60922-c11305/Salt-Lake-City:Utah:Finding.Your.Way.Around.Salt.Lake.City.html . . and https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7531446,-104.9224646,16z
I just remember when I was delivering pizzas in high school and college, I figured out that “odd on the right increases.” That helped me immensely, especially in weird subdivisions. Does that ever vary?