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I live on the N/NE border in Seattle, but fortunately I'm on an avenue, so the entire street is N. It's an interesting system that I'd never seen before I move
by dunham 9y ago
I live on the N/NE border in Seattle, but fortunately I'm on an avenue, so the entire street is N.
It's an interesting system that I'd never seen before I moved here. Streets are East/West. Avenues are North/South. The compass direction indicates the section of the city that the street is in. And the directional goes up front on streets and on the end for avenues.
It sounds like Portland has the same system - how widespread is it? Is it a pacific NW thing?
- Camillo 9y agoChicago uses a similar system.
- jdeibele 9y agoIn Portland, I've never seen the direction at the end of the street address. It's always <house number> <direction> <street name>. A lot of the City of Portland systems have you input your house number, street name, then direction so (guessing) they can validate it. Of course, browsers have been filling form fields for many, many years and I wish they'd just put an address field there.
- Splines 9y agoHere's more detail about the naming system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_layout_of_Seattle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_layout_of_Seattle