It is good practice to distinguish between size and importance of street, and direction of street, by terminology. For example, "street" might be used for east-west streets, and "avenue" for north-south streets, or vice-versa. Diagonal streets or heavy traffic bearers might be called "boulevard. Curvilinear streets might use "place," "road," "way," and "lane," etc. The Committee on Terminology established by the American Society of Planning Officials may make recommendations for the use of these terms.
Subdividers have found that there is greater "sales appeal" for houses on named streets, particularly if "romantic" names are used with suffices such as "place," "road," "lane," than on numbered streets. For example, the home purchaser prefers to live on "Rose Lane" than on "72nd Street. Natural barriers such as a river or lake front, a ridge, etc. The heart of the central business district is a good "basing point" for such systems.
There may be a shift in the location of the central business district at a later date, but such shift should not cause disruption of the street naming system. Central business district retailers' associations may be very much interested in seeing that the street naming and house numbering system radiates from the central business district. For example, in Chicago, Western Avenue and Madison Street were selected as the base lines for dividing the city into quadrants.
The business interests in "The Loop" objected and were influential in establishing State Street and Madison Street as the dividing lines, even though that meant that there would be virtually no north-east quadrant of the city, due to the curve in Lake Michigan in that area.
In many communities, particularly in the Midwest, streets were laid out by law on the U. In some of these communities; the applicable regulations pertaining to the establishment of a gridiron street pattern have never been repealed. There also may be legal obstacles in establishing curvilinear street patterns or "super blocks" as well as perhaps some local street department reluctance to spoiling a gridiron street naming and numbering system.
Subdividers of large tracts have advised that street names be distinctive within a subdivision so that even though a visitor cannot immediately find an address on a curvilinear street, or in a cul-de-sac, he can immediately identify it as to its general location. When a new street naming and numbering system is put into effect, it should be done completely at one time and not piecemeal over a period of time. Presidents, states, famous women, famous army and military heroes, trees, famous men, cities, are favorite street name choices.
Descriptive names such as "Lake," "Main," "Church" are also common. Historical names are often selected. Streets may have interesting names which are in no way related to actual conditions, for example, a River Street may not be near any water, a Crooked Street may be straight, a Southport Avenue may not be close to a port.
It is not easy to select names, particularly for large cities. It was reported that London had approximately 5, street names, Paris 1,, New York 5,, Philadelphia 1,, Baltimore 3,, Cleveland 2,, Detroit 2,, and Chicago 1, Communities requiring the posting of numbers often specify the type of lettering, size of numbers, etc. See the Tucson, Arizona proposed ordinance in this report.
Some communities purchase these numbers, and others require the property owner to furnish them. Some communities paint or stencil the house number on the curb as well as requiring it on the house door itself. Tulsa, Oklahoma, is based on a grid with the basic line Main Street running north and south and the Frisco tracks running east and west. All the streets east of Main are named in alphabetical order for cities of the United States situated east of the Mississippi — Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Elgin, etc.
All the streets south of the Frisco tracks are named numerically in sequence — 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. In all parts of the city, the house numbers start with the even hundred at each corner. Suppose, for example, one wishes to go to Cincinnati.
Everyone knows Main Street, which is one of the principal business streets of the city. Cincinnati is an eastern city, therefore he knows that Cincinnati Street is the second block east of main.
All the streets that are named numerically lie south of the Frisco tracks. Therefore, he knows that house number is in the southern part of the city between 6th and 7th streets. All the house numbers on streets running north of the tracks have the prefix of the letter "N," thus making a clear distinction between and N. An example of a small city that recently renumbered and renamed its streets, is that of DeQuincy, Louisiana, population approximately, 5, The old street system gave each addition or sub-addition to the city a code number which formed part of the house number; the block number also formed part of the house number as did the relative location of the house on the block or actual house number.
Thus, a house located in a new subdivision, might have a house number such as although it was only one block distant from a house numbered Also, under the old system, some streets had different names at different portions of their length, one street having three names. Ten streets had to be renamed, so that each would have the same name throughout its entire length.
After the revision, two streets were set up as basing points, Division Street running north and south, and Center Street running east and west. Now, all of the streets have a prefix designating north, east, south or west. At the point where Center and Division Streets intersect, and house numbers increase in size, the further the distance from these intersecting points. The streets are laid out in gridiron fashion.
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin , recently revised its street naming system: on the east side-of the bay, which is the larger area, all north-south streets were assigned numerical names, beginning with "First Avenue," and the east-west streets were given geographical names mostly states , beginning with "Alabama Street" and proceeding geographically to "Utah Street.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin , prepared a new address system in which specified that all north-south streets should be called "Street," all east-west streets should be called "Avenue," all diagonal streets should be called "Drives," and all unrelated dead-end streets should be called "Courts.
Henderson, Tennessee , adopted a new property numbering system in in which a grid was used and where there was a bend in the street, the numbering was continued as though the street was straight. An ordinance to provide for a uniform system of numbering in Jefferson City, Tennessee was published in Community Planning in Tennessee , a report of the Tennessee State Planning Commission. The street-naming system of the metropolitan area of a city should be linked to the central city.
A good example of a coordinated street naming pattern is in the vicinity of Washington, D. The northeast Maryland suburbs falling within the area of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission adopted a street naming system in , which is primarily a continuation of the street naming system of Washington, D.
These streets radiate north and east from the U. Capitol, and form the two inner boundaries of that city's northeast section. East from North Capitol are a series of numbered north-south streets which continue beyond the Washington, D. North of East Capitol Street, the system consists of several zones of east-west streets arranged in alphabetical order.
Monroe County, New York , at the request of the smaller municipalities within its area, undertook the job of eliminating duplication of street and road names, and of establishing a pattern of house numbering. Over two hundred duplicate names were discovered and eliminated. The new pattern was dovetailed into that previously established for Rochester, where numbers were formerly established on the basis of 15 feet per number.
This was extended through the towns surrounding the central city, until all old subdivisions with lot frontages of less than 50 feet had been included. City, borough and district councils allocate postal numbers to houses and buildings in their area. They also name new roads and streets. The council involves the land developer in the street naming process. They invite suggestions and possible alternative names from the developer.
These street names with postal numbers go before council for approval. Councils don't allocate house names.
If your home already has a number, the property owner can add a name to the address without contacting the council. You can add the house name to an existing postal address, but you cannot remove the number from the address. As the property name is not officially part of the address, you must still display and use the house number in any correspondence. It isn't easy for councils or the emergency services to identify an address using a house name alone.
A house number should be prominently displayed to identify the location of a property on a road. Councils are responsible for providing street name plates and fitting these in suitable positions. If there is a problem or fault with a street name plate in your area, contact the council:. We will not reply to your feedback. Don't include any personal or financial information, for example National Insurance, credit card numbers, or phone numbers.
The nidirect privacy notice applies to any information you send on this feedback form. When municipalities determine how to number addresses, they start by measuring the distance the property sits from an established zero point, or baseline such as the city center.
This central point gives the city or county a consistent location from which to measure and number all existing and future addresses.
The individual numbers are then determined following methods such as:. The rules used by the civil planning engineers varies depending on population, street configurations, and other factors. Of course, this is a simplified explanation of some considerations behind assigning house numbers.
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