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How are house numbers allocated on El Camino Real in California? (AKA El Camino BIGNUM) I believe they run to 5 digits; Does every house-number have a house?
by denton-scratch 3y ago
How are house numbers allocated on El Camino Real in California? (AKA El Camino BIGNUM) I believe they run to 5 digits; Does every house-number have a house?
- cardiffspaceman 3y agoDifferent municipalities have the same number and street. You can try it. 12345 El Camino Real Can be found in San Diego, Los Altos Hills, and Atascadero. Real means Royal not double.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> Real means Royal not double. It's a pun: https://foldoc.org/El+Camino+Bignum https://foldoc.org/El+Camino+Bignum
- jameshart 3y agoAnd can you address houses one block over by specifying El Camino Imaginary?
- madcaptenor 3y agoWouldn’t that be a road that’s perpendicular to El Camino Real?
- astrange 3y agoI think it'd go straight up.
- zoky 3y ago5 digit house numbers are pretty common throughout California, partly because in general, house numbers will start a new group of 100 each block, making it a lot easier to identify in which part of town a given address falls. So a given block will have numbers 102XX, the next block will have 103XX, and so on, even though the 102XX block may only have numbers 10200-10241, for example. What’s even cooler is that, in L.A. at least, block numbers are assigned so as to “sync” with each other; the 9800 block of Sepulveda is due exactly west of the 9800 block of La Cienega. And, cooler still, the 9800 block of both streets (actually, pretty much any north-south street) will be between 98th and 99th streets. The address numbering system in L.A. is surprisingly effective and consistent for a town that is essentially a patchwork of dozens of independent cities, with a mountain running through the middle of it to boot.