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My father in law owns property in west Texas. No address just gps coordinates. He gets packages sent to a place in a nearby town.

• mabbo 9y ago
  Is this property registered with anyone? Or does he just sort of live there and no one asks?
  • Spooky23 9y ago
    Country areas used to be like this everywhere. In the old days, my parents mailing address was RD1, Box 300. No street -- you have to tell couriers like UPS (who didn't deliver there until the late 80s) the physical address separately. Road numbers were added in the early 80s, and mailing addresses were updated in the late 90s when individual telephone lines were available and 911 was mandated. Directions for emergency services would be like "There's an emergency at the Smith's house, over on Country Road 5 houses after the Jones farm."
  • S_A_P 9y ago
    This made me chuckle. Yes, this is not a case of a recluse squatting on some land in the middle of nowhere, it is land off of a major highway, there is just no address or postal code associated with it.
  • saalweachter 9y ago
    Most localities don't use addresses to identify properties. For instance, New York uses Section-Block-Lot (SBL) numbers: https://www.tax.ny.gov/research/property/valuation/sbl.htm https://www.tax.ny.gov/research/property/valuation/sbl.htm Lots will only be given addresses upon request, usually when someone wants mail delivery or if the locality requires you obtain an address for emergency services to obtain a building permit.