need your assistance

[sereneorange]

I am trying to find answers to the following questions.

• How are street numbers assigned
• How are street names assigned?  (in subdivisions and in the city)
• Is it the same for acreage as it is for lot and block?

Anyone who knows the answer to this, or can find it, please respond. If you would, clickity here to let me know you have found it.

Comments

[daniels-pengies.livejournal.com]

oooooo resisting temptation to abuse the text message link...must not bother innocent person....must resist trollish urges....OOOOO something shiny...what was I typing again???

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

oh, I love to text...easiest way isif you are on yahoo messanger. I am mybarbell

[lil-ms-drama.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if he can help, but gridlockjoe works for TXDot. He might have some clue that I don't.

[gridlockjoe.livejournal.com]

I wish I worked for TxDOT. I work for Metro Traffic Control.

Anyway, more than you ever wanted to know:

Typically in the US there will be either 8, 10 or even 16 blocks to a mile. (Downtown Houston is 16) In most places there's a starting intersection (looks like in Houston it would be where Commerce met the bayou... somewhere in that area) that the numbers count up from. (In Dallas it's where Commerce meets the Trinity River; in Fort Worth, main at Weatherford, in front of the courthouse.)

If you look at a map of downtown Salt Lake City, the "grid" will be very apparent.

Street names? That's easy They're assigned by developers, with the approval of the city/county planning department. The older rural roads, especially in this area, will be named for the communities they connected (Alief Clodine, Barker Cypress, etc.)

This site (http://www.outfitters.com/genealogy/land/land.html) will tell you more than you wanted to know about legal land description.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I do know quite a bit of that already. I work as an abstractor/examiner

[lil-ms-drama.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that. I knew it was something that had to do with traffic since you told me y'all were updating maps recently.

Thanks for the help.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

thanks

[lil-ms-drama.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that, Joe. My bad.

No problem.

[theclamsman.livejournal.com]

That usually happens in the city development process...naming/numbering...but in older cases it's usually just Ye Olde Townfolk who establish the names/numbers (but even still, it's "city development" then, too).

I don't know about acreage, BUT I do know that a lot does not necessarily equal a block and one block in one city doesn't necessarily mean the same distance/length as a different block (in the same city or in another city).

There are some fucking longassed blocks in San Francisco, girl. But there are short ones, too.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

A lot is definitely not a block because a block is subdivided into lots. It is when a subdivision is platted out into lot and block that makes it not acreage.

Acreage is when you have to map out a piece of property via metes and bounds using landmarks or iron rods in the ground, fenceposts, concrete markers..blah blah blah....I am starting to think that my sister is right. My job is boring.

[theclamsman.livejournal.com]

Ooh, and lookie here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_(geography)