For example: I’m currently working several orders on a particular street. I just had an order in the 1100 block, and then I have several orders in the 1300 block. You would think this would be two blocks down, but it’s the very next block. Why is there no 1200 block? I see this a lot, as my has me driving all over town every day.
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A lot of city grids have gaps in them, either intentionally left blank in case there’s new construction or somewhat unintentionally skipped because there was no cross-street at 1200 that far west, but there is somewhere else.
Streets sometimes stop and start based on the old grid before towns grew into eachother or from some pre-existing geographical or infrastructure feature.
Maybe a train track ran too close to where 12th street would have been. Maybe there’s a drainage creek there that nobody dared fill in. Maybe the old town wasn’t perfectly aligned with the encroaching city and there was a grid correction there. Maybe there used to be an old factory there that took up multiple blocks.
Could be a myriad of reasons why there’s no 12th street at that particular location.
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