ELi5 – How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered?

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ELi5 – How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered?

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Answer 1

In my experience where I’ve lived in the US, there’s basically a center point where address start in the tens, and every block away they go up by 100. So the first block could have 1, 2, 3, etc, then the next block would have 101, 102, 103, etc.

The town where I learned to drive also had numbers for most of the roads, with streets going NS and avenues going WE. So if you were going to 1105 7th Ave NW, you knew it was on the 7th Ave north of main street and not the 7th Ave south, it was on the western side of town, and it was between 11th St and 12th St.