Whereabouts in North America is the Highest numbered Grid Street?

And do all the number streets start in the same corner on the map?

3rd question
What is the longest continuous Grid street either in terms of Intersections and/or Mileage?
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11-22-06, 02:24 AM
DorianGreyed
"And do all the number streets start in the same corner on the map?"

No.

11-22-06, 08:01 AM
aminator2002
I have heard that Western Avenue in Chicago is the longest street within a city. Of course Chicago is a grid city so I also have to imagine that it is the largest grid with the highest extremities.

Western Avenue

Chicago only numbers streets on the south side. The extreme is 119th street within the city but it goes up to at least 157th South. Northbound Howard street is about the equivilent of 60th street north and Western Ave changes it's name north of Howard.

If you want a long road then Route 38 which is Roosevelt Road in Chicago is pretty darn good example. It runs across the whole state.

11-22-06, 08:07 AM
juanruiz
Here are some possibilities:

Broadway-New York City
Gratiot-Detroit
Foothill Blvd (Old Route 66)-from San Bernardino County to Santa Monica

11-22-06, 08:45 AM
bedstor
JR?
aminator has the gist of what I'm enquiring about
But you have raised a Further query (this is going to run) Wink Does Broadway NYC have a Numbered street name as well? I can Imagine traversing it and finding a gap in the numbers Roll Eyes
Is logical? Smile Can't exactly go 3 Intersections and say the 3rd is #2 ..Totally illogical! Confused

11-22-06, 08:47 AM
juanruiz
Oh, I see. I thought by "highest numbered" you meant how high addresses went up, not that the street was a number. My mistake.

11-22-06, 08:49 AM
juanruiz
I might add that the numbered streets in Manhattan continue into the Bronx, where they go over 200.

11-22-06, 08:59 AM
bedstor

quote:
Originally posted by juanruiz:
Oh, I see. I thought by "highest numbered" you meant how high addresses went up, not that the street was a number. My mistake.


Not House numbers JR We did a topic on that a few years back.(deleted) Wink

11-22-06, 12:17 PM
Julieta Martinez
My high school street number was 11133.

But it wasn´t a long street, so it had few addresses on that street. So it might not be what you´re looking for, bedstor...

11-22-06, 02:37 PM
bedstor
JM
Thanks for that It's streets like 1st 2nd 3rd.. I'm after
Rarely see them in groups in the UK Nearest you'll get is First street, Second street...Highest Number perhaps Tenth?(always written numbers)

Ps Going from Memory I think you'd be the Highest Number on Answerpool Street if we were to run that Fun topic again (I was #94)and worked at # 125 Big Grin

11-22-06, 05:53 PM
coldfuse
Not a grid street, so a bit off your question:

Yonge Street is the main north-south thorough fare in Ontario. Beginning at the Harbourfront in Toronto and officially ending 1884 km (1178 mi) later making it the longest street in North America.

Source

11-24-06, 03:55 PM
Jelp01
There's an exit at North Bend, WA, off I-90 that is the 436th St. exit.

11-24-06, 04:30 PM
bedstor
Eek!
On the other end of the scale
I'll bet there is a village or town somewhere that boasts a 1st and 2nd street and thats it! (With a solitary house in each street!) Big Grin

11-24-06, 05:33 PM
Julieta Martinez
I can top that. In my villiage here we don´t even have the privillege to HAVE street names!!

11-24-06, 06:20 PM
DorianGreyed
"In my villiage here we don´t even have the privillege to HAVE street names!!"

YOU had streets? We were so poor, we couldn't afford streets; we had paths. We didn't even have houses; we lived in holes in the ground.

11-25-06, 08:00 AM
FredPuli

quote:
Originally posted by Julieta Martinez:
I can top that. In my villiage here we don´t even have the privillege to HAVE street names!!



Could be worse: at least you can get directions from locals which are not misleading. In Britain,in our village for example, the lanes, streets, roads and pubs may have names but the locals don't use them. The locals either use obscure references e.g. 'by the old Odeon' when 'old' means 'demolished forty years ago' or they don't use the name which has been given by officialdom or they use some local variant. They'll refer to a road as 'the middle road' (because it lies midway between two parallel bigger roads), just as they and previous generations always did, when its official name is 'Bourn Bridge Road' or they'll call a pub 'the mucky duck' or 'the duck' when it is really 'The White Swan' or they'll call the pub by some name it had in the past, sometimes two or three names previously.Brewers are fond of renaming pubs that have been refurbished and restyled but the locals stick with the old name, in spite of what the brewer's designers and image consultants think !

11-25-06, 09:41 AM
Sherasi
I can beat that for directions. Smile

I worked in a Rural region for Home Nursing.

"Turn left at the marshmallow haystacks"

"Turn right at the pond beside the large Willow tree"

that sort of thing.

11-25-06, 11:09 AM
DorianGreyed
In Rural America, you might get something like this -

"Turn where Harley's barn used to be, but don't take the big turn, take the little turn. It's just past the hard road a bit. You can't miss it."

11-25-06, 11:54 AM
bedstor
Sounds almost Like the West Country in England
Can make no sense of directions if you ask a local and their Dialect doesn't help(a double Confused @ them)

11-28-06, 01:38 PM
Georgia85
271st street is the highest numbered grid street in NYC if that helps any.

11-28-06, 02:48 PM
dogspit
What is the Highest Grid street Number? and other queries
I know that Indian School Road in Phoenix, which crosses most of the valley, goes out at least as far as 411th Avenue heading out west, and that the Hyder Valley area of Arizone (which uses the same grid numbering system that begins at Central Avenue in Phoenix) goes to at least 571st Avenue, but I do not know if it extends beyond that.

11-28-06, 03:01 PM
Koz
I would have to guess Salt Lake City, Utah has the highest grid numbers in North America. It is an extremely easy city to navigate. The city was built on a grid system based on the four streets bordering Temple Square. The largest number I remember from driving the area is about 1300

11-29-06, 09:09 AM
coldfuse

quote:
Originally posted by DorianGreyed:
In Rural America, you might get something like this -

"Turn where Harley's barn used to be, but don't take the big turn, take the little turn. It's just past the hard road a bit. You can't miss it."



I get many truck deliveries to my jobsites. One truck driver told me he had directions to go until he saw a dog on the side of the road. As soon as the dog stops chasing him, he was to take the first right turn. The directions worked perfectly.

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