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{{short description|Street whose name is an ordinal number}}
{{Distinguish|Route number}}
[[File:Philly10thStreet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Philadelphia]]'s 10th Street written in English and Chinese]]
A '''numbered street''' is a street whose name is an [[Ordinal number (linguistics)|ordinal number]], as in ''Second Street'' or ''Tenth Avenue''. Such forms are among the most common street names in [[North America]], but also exist in other parts of the world, especially in [[Numbered street#Colombia|Colombia]], which takes the system to an extreme, and the [[Middle East]]. Numbered streets were first used in [[Philadelphia]]<ref>Rybczynski, Witold. "City Life". Simon & Schuster, 1995.</ref> and now exist in many major cities and small towns. [[Street name#Grid-based naming systems|Grid-based naming systems]] usually start at 1 (but sometimes at a higher number or even at zero), and then proceed in numerical order. In the United States, seven out of the top ten most common street names are numbers, with the top three names being "2nd," "3rd," and "1st" respectively.<ref>''Census and You'', February 1993 ([[United States Census Bureau]], Geography Division), as reported in "[http://www.nlc.org/about_cities/cities_101/184.aspx Most common street names]", [[National League of Cities]]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806075013/http://www.nlc.org/about_cities/cities_101/184.aspx |date=August 6, 2009 }}</ref> Streets named "0th" are quite uncommon, however, but do exist (sometimes spelled out "Zero Street") (like [[0 Avenue]] in [[British Columbia|BC]], Canada), and negative numbered streets (i.e, "−1st", "−2nd", etc.) are extraordinarily rare. Fractional numbered streets exist in some places, such as {{frac|10|1|2}} Street in [[Springfield, Illinois]].

Some cities also have lettered street names. For example, [[Washington, D.C.]], in addition to having numbered streets, also has streets identified as a letter followed by "Street," going as high as the letter W. [[New York City]] has avenues titled "Avenue" followed by the respective letter of the alphabet, such as Avenue D. The idea for such a system was developed by [[Pierre Charles L’Enfant]], who devised the system for Washington.

The numbered street system is criticized for taking away the individuality from a community that a named street would provide.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Scribner's Magazine ...|author1=Burlingame, E.L.|author2=Bridges, R.|author3=Dashiell, A.|author4=Logan, H.|date=1910|volume=47|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-kLbBAESQLwC&pg=PA577|page=577|access-date=2015-08-04}}</ref>

== United States and Canada ==
=== United States ===
==== Baltimore ====
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{{See also|List of streets in Baltimore, Maryland#Numbered streets}}

[[File:HampdenSouth.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|34th Street in [[Baltimore]]]]
The city of [[Baltimore, Maryland]], has numbered streets in the north-central part of the city. The numbered streets in Baltimore do not begin with 1, but rather start with '''20th Street''' just north of and parallel to [[North Avenue (Baltimore)|North Avenue]], the former northern boundary of the city, and what is viewed by many today is the northern boundary of [[Downtown Baltimore]]. The numbered streets, which go as high as '''43rd Street''', correspond with the first two digits in the addresses of the north–south streets they cross. Unlike in Washington, where the numbered streets run north–south, Baltimore's numbered streets run west–east. All begin their names with either "West" or "East," depending on which side of [[Maryland Route 139|Charles Street]] the block is located.

Some of Baltimore's numbered streets are well known for various reasons. 28th and 29th streets, a [[one-way pair]], are the only numbered streets to have an [[interchange (road)|interchange]] with [[Jones Falls Expressway|I-83]]. They use the numbered designations to the east of the expressway, and to the west, they merge into a six-lane road known as [[Druid Park Lake Drive]]. [[33rd Street (Baltimore)|East 33rd Street]] was the location of the now-demolished [[Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)|Memorial Stadium]], home to the [[Baltimore Orioles]] for 38 years and the [[History of the Indianapolis Colts|Baltimore Colts]] for 31. West 34th Street is the location of the annual [[Miracle on 34th Street (Baltimore)|Miracle on 34th Street]], where residents on one block of the street open their porches to tourists to view their holiday decorations. '''West 40th Street''' is the location of [[The Rotunda (Baltimore)|The Rotunda]] shopping mall, and it merges into West 41st Street, which crosses over (but does not have an interchange with) I-83 into [[Television Hill, Baltimore|Television Hill]] and is the only numbered street in the city west of I-83.

==== Chicago ====
{{Main|Roads and expressways in Chicago}}
The City of [[Chicago]] is set on a grid with eight "standard" city blocks per mile. Some blocks are further divided in half. A standard block has 100 address numbers, meaning there are 800 numbers per mile. Chicago address numbering begins downtown at [[State Street (Chicago)|State Street]] and [[Madison Street (Chicago)|Madison Street]]; State Street is 0 east and west, and Madison Street is 0 north and south. Major streets a mile apart have address numbers that, for the most part, are multiples of 800.

The south side of the city uses numbered east–west streets, although older streets that were already named retained their names, particularly in the [[Chicago Loop|Loop]]. As stated above, Chicago house numbers are generally assigned at the rate of 8 blocks to a mile. The only exceptions are from Madison to 31st Street, just south of downtown.

The first two main numbered roads in the system were renamed for historical figures after the numbering system was adopted. Roosevelt Road (previously 12th Street and renamed for [[Theodore Roosevelt]]) is one mile south of Madison with 12 blocks to the mile, Cermak Road (previously 22nd Street and renamed in memory of assassinated mayor [[Anton Cermak]]) is two miles south of Madison with 10 blocks to the mile, and 31st Street (3100 S) is three miles south of Madison with 9 blocks to the mile. South of 31st Street, the pattern of 8 blocks to the mile resumes, with 39th Street the next major street, 47th after that, and so on.

The numbering within Chicago is continued in many suburbs south of the city proper. For instance, [[Chicago Heights, Illinois|Chicago Heights]] has a 185th Street, set on the same numbering scheme.

Chicago's numbered street system was established in 1911 by legislation that made Madison Street the base for the numbering of east–west streets, and State Street for north–south streets.<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth|author=Currey, J.S.|date=1912|volume=3|publisher=S. J. Clarke Publishing Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7pQUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA299|page=299|access-date=2015-08-04}}</ref>

==== Cleveland ====
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As a general rule, the only numbered streets in [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] run generally north–south, while streets that run parallel to the [[Lake Erie]] shoreline (generally east–west) have names rather than numbers. [[Public Square, Cleveland|Public Square]] in downtown Cleveland separates east- and west-numbered streets, with the numbers increasing in both directions as one travels further away from Public Square, in a system initiated in 1906.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Street Names|url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/street-names|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|date=29 June 2018|publisher=[[Case Western Reserve University]]}}</ref> Conforming east–west roads are given a name, rather than a number, and the suffix "Avenue." Where an avenue crosses Ontario Street or the [[Cuyahoga River]], its name changes, meaning that a numbered street does not intersect a given avenue more than once. For example, stating a location as "65th and Detroit" implies West 65th Street, since Detroit Avenue changes to Superior Avenue when it crosses the river. Non-conforming streets are suffixed with names other than "street" or "avenue," e.g., West Boulevard, Old River Road, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Geographic idiosyncrasies in certain parts of the city mean that this is by no means an absolute rule but generally applies within the city proper. The street numbering extends from West 233rd in [[North Olmsted]] to East 367th in [[Eastlake, Ohio|Eastlake]].

==== Denver ====
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{{Main|Street system of Denver}}

[[Denver]] has two systems in place in two distinct areas of the city. Downtown Denver's diagonal street system technically begins with 4th Street near Auraria Campus, underneath the Colfax Avenue viaduct. The system then counts up northeastward from 4th Street to 40th Street. The diagonal system meets the normal numbered grid at various points, with the termination of the downtown system at 40th Avenue and 40th Street in the Five Points neighborhood.

The second system is a typical East/West layout, with directional indicators. First Avenue is adjacent to Ellsworth Avenue in Central Denver; the series extends to 168th Avenue in unincorporated [[Adams County, Colorado|Adams County]]. Exceptions include [[Colfax Avenue]], which takes the place of 15th Avenue, and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which generally takes the place of East 32nd Avenue. The designations ''East'' and ''North'' are generally not used unless needed.<!--clarify? what determines need?--> Building numbers on cross-streets reflect the street numbering; for example, 1800 Colorado Boulevard would be at the corner of 18th Avenue. (1800 South Colorado Boulevard is outside the area of numbered streets.)

==== Detroit ====
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{{Main|Mile Road System (Detroit)}}

[[File:8 Mile Road.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|8 Mile Road overpass]]
In the northern suburbs of [[Metro Detroit|Detroit]], "___ Mile Road" runs east–west, a stated number of miles from the center of Detroit. Some of these roads are also known by other names. The lowest numbered road is '''5 Mile Road''', while the city limits end at '''[[8 Mile Road]]''', which at one time was called "[[M-102 (Michigan highway)|Baseline Road]]". The highest such numbered road is '''38 Mile Road''', which is mostly in [[Almont, Michigan|Almont]].

The city of Detroit also has some conventional numbered streets within the city limits.

==== Los Angeles ====
{{main|Los Angeles Avenues|Los Angeles streets, 1–10|Los Angeles streets, 11–40|Los Angeles streets, 41–250}}
In the city of [[Los Angeles]], all numbered streets begin from the historic corner of First and Main and are numbered according to the distance from there in their respective quadrants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-27-me-57846-story.html|title=For Street Addresses, It All Begins at 1st and Main|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=27 November 2000}}</ref>

==== Greater Miami ====
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In [[Miami metropolitan area|Greater Miami]], numbered streets go into the three digits, with varying, overlapping sets of numbered streets. The area has roads that are named as a number followed by "Street" that runs west–east, and a number followed by "Avenue" that runs north–south. All these streets start their names with NW, NE, SW, or SE, depending on where they are in relation to the center of [[Miami]].

In the Miami suburbs, some numbered streets and avenues are paired with a parallel "Court", "Drive", "Place" or "Terrace"; while in the same area, other sets of numbered streets and avenues exist with lower numbers, such as in Hialeah, where W 68th St is also designated NW 122 St [https://maps.google.com/?ll=25.885713,-80.351&spn=0.023359,0.042272&t=m&z=15]. This is known to lead to confusion among some, especially non-locals.

Similar numbering systems are used throughout the state of Florida, such as in [https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.630883,-82.418447&spn=0.022568,0.042272&t=m&z=15 Gainesville], [https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.171124,-82.253008&spn=0.045341,0.084543&t=m&z=14 Ocala], [https://maps.google.com/?ll=30.22062,-85.627892&spn=0.011218,0.021136&t=m&z=16 Panama City], and [https://maps.google.com/?ll=30.246148,-81.720858&spn=0.011215,0.021136&t=m&z=16 Jacksonville].

==== New York City ====
{{main|List of numbered streets in Manhattan}}
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[[File:Street sign at corner of Fifth Avenue and E 57th Street in NYC.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Fifth Avenue]] and E. 57th Street in [[Manhattan]]]]
The [[Commissioners' Plan of 1811]] laid out the grid that covers most of [[Manhattan]] today. Most east–west streets (which actually run southeast–northwest) are named "___th Street", and a few major north–south streets (which actually run northeast–southwest, roughly parallel to the island's long axis) are named "___th Avenue".

The highest-numbered [[List of streets in Manhattan|street on Manhattan Island]] is 220th Street, and the highest-numbered street in the Borough of Manhattan is 228th Street.

The Manhattan numbered street grid continues north in The [[The Bronx|Bronx]], where the highest numbered street is West 263rd Street on the border of [[Yonkers, New York|Yonkers]]. The only numbered avenue in The Bronx is a continuation of Manhattan's [[Third Avenue (New York City)|Third Avenue]].

In Queens, the melding of various grids from pre-consolidation villages resulted in repeat numbers, for example, 31st Street, 31st Place, 31st Lane, and their perpendicular counterparts 31st Avenue, 31st Road, and 31st Drive. Streets, Places and Lanes run north to south, while Avenues, Roads, and Drives run east to west. Avenues run from 2nd Avenue in Whitestone to 165th Avenue in Howard Beach. Streets run from 1st Street in Astoria to 271st Street in Glen Oaks.

In [[Brooklyn]], there are ten sets of numbered streets ([[List of Brooklyn streets, 1–101|unprefixed numbered streets]] as well as North, South, East, West, Bay, Brighton, Paerdegat, Plumb, and Flatlands numbered streets), along with [[List of Brooklyn avenues, 1–28|numbered avenues]] up to 28th Avenue and [[Brooklyn avenues, Lettered A–Z|letter avenues]] up to Avenue Z. Manhattan's [[Alphabet City, Manhattan|Alphabet City]] consists of Avenues [[Avenue A (Manhattan)|A]] through [[Avenue D (Manhattan)|D]].

The [[Rockaway, Queens|Rockaways]] section of Queens has streets prefixed with the word ''Beach''. However, street signs in this area typically identify this prefix using only the letter B (e.g. [[Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street station|"B 116 St"]]). The neighborhood of [[Broad Channel, Queens|Broad Channel]] also has its own network of numbered roads, prefixed with East or West, relative to [[Cross Bay Boulevard]].

The closest cross street to a given [[building number]] in Manhattan can be estimated using the [[Manhattan address algorithm]].

The highest-numbered street in all of New York City is 271st Street, in [[Glen Oaks, Queens]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/nyregion/fyi-414514.html F.Y.I.], ''NYTimes''</ref> 704th Street in [[Orangeburg, New York]] is the highest-numbered street in the [[New York metropolitan area|Greater New York City]] area, and at one point was the highest-numbered street in the United States.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/99046029/ Detroit Free Press]. Page 136</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/63409398/ The San Bernardino County Sun]. Page 102</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/215243005/ The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana].
 Page 212.</ref> The highest-numbered Avenue in Manhattan is the obscure [[13th Avenue (Manhattan)|Thirteenth Avenue]], on Gansevoort Peninsula in the Hudson River just north of Gansevoort Street. Currently, only one unmarked block remains, currently used as a garbage truck access behind the Bloomfield Street Sanitation Depot. The street was once longer, but much of the land it was built on was removed to provide longer piers for berthing larger ships, such as {{RMS|Lusitania}} and {{RMS|Titanic}}, without protruding further into the Hudson River. [[West Side Highway|Twelfth Avenue]] is the highest numbered avenue that is signed by the city and accessible to the public. Higher-numbered avenues exist in other boroughs.

[[Sixth and a Half Avenue]] is the only numbered avenue in Manhattan involving [[fraction]]s.<ref>[http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/officially-marking-a-new-manhattan-avenue/ Officially Marking a New Manhattan Avenue], ''NYTimes - City Room'', July 13, 2012 - accessed 2012-07-31.</ref>{{failed verification|date=November 2019}}

==== Philadelphia ====
[[File:Map of the Original City of Philadelphia in 1682 by Thomas Holme.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Original street plan of [[Center City, Philadelphia|Center City Philadelphia]]]]
[[Center City, Philadelphia|Central]] [[Philadelphia]] was laid out by [[Thomas Holme]] in 1683<ref name="virginia">{{cite web|url=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/penn/pnplan.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970430105836/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnplan.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 30, 1997|title=Planning Philadelphia|publisher=xroads.virginia.edu|access-date=2015-08-04}}</ref> and was the first city to use numbered streets systematically. While the original plan had two sets of north–south numbered streets, one parallel to the [[Delaware River]] and one to the [[Schuylkill River|Schuylkill]]; all are now numbered from the Delaware, with numbers increasing westward and continuing across the Schuylkill through [[West Philadelphia]] to the edge of the city. There are two main exceptions to this pattern: Holme's plan included [[Front Street, Philadelphia|Front Street]] in place of First and [[Broad Street (Philadelphia)|Broad Street]] in place of Fourteenth; "Schuylkill Front Street" became 22nd when the streets west of Broad were renumbered. The highest numbered street is 90th Street.<ref name=gm>{{google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=90th+street+philadelphia&sll=40.292097,-75.160217&sspn=0.902918,2.705383&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=90th+St,+Philadelphia,+Pennsylvania+19153&ll=39.884187,-75.248709&spn=0.007508,0.021136&t=h&z=16|title=overview of 90th Street in Philadelphia|accessdate=2010-12-15}}</ref> In [[Southwest Philadelphia]], the grid is oblique, with numbered streets running from northwest to southeast and meeting their West Philadelphia equivalents at Baltimore Avenue. In general, numbered streets northwest of the Schuylkill are not aligned with their counterparts across the river in [[South Philadelphia]].<ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=The London-Scottish Reformed Presbyterian magazine|date=1869|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UC8EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA228|page=228|access-date=2015-08-04}}</ref>

The [[Kensington, Philadelphia|Kensington]] area has streets lettered "A" through "O". The [[East Oak Lane]] and [[West Oak Lane]] sections of the city contains east–west streets numbered from 64th Avenue to 80th Avenue, with the numbers correspondent with the block numbers north from [[Market Street (Philadelphia)|Market Street]].<ref name=adcphiladelphia>{{cite map|publisher=[[ADC Map]]|title=Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |year=2006|edition=19th|scale= 1"=2000'|isbn=978-0-87530-777-0}}</ref>

In the early 20th century, many of [[Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia|Chestnut Hill]]'s previously numbered streets were renamed for [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] tribes.<ref name="google4">{{cite book|title=Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990|author=Contosta, D.R.|date=1992|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=9780814205808|url=https://archive.org/details/suburbincityches00cont|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/suburbincityches00cont/page/92 92]|access-date=2015-08-04}}</ref>

==== Phoenix ====
In [[Phoenix, Arizona]], the north-south streets used a numbered system, with the center street being Central Avenue. Streets west of Central Avenue are named "avenue", thus, for example, 33rd Avenue is the thirty-third street west of Central Avenue. Streets east of Central Avenue are named "street", thus, for example, 27th Street is the twenty-seventh street east of Central Avenue. These streets and avenues are further divided into, for example, "North 9th Street" and "South 9th Street", with the dividing line being a line extending from Washington Street. East-west streets are not named using a numbered system.<ref name="phoenixmap">{{google maps |url=https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6055497,-112.4546947,10z |title=Street Grid of Phoenix, Arizona|access-date=2023-11-19}}</ref> Adjacent municipalities, such as [[Glendale, Arizona|Glendale]] and [[Peoria, Arizona|Peoria]], continue this grid system, although there are exceptional streets that do not follow the numbered street convention.<ref name="phoenixmap"></ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyadventuring.com/2015/05/how-grid-system-of-phoenix-arizona-works.html|title=How the grid system of the streets of Phoenix, Arizona works|date=2015-05-10|website=History Adventuring|access-date=2023-11-19}}</ref>

==== Pittsburgh ====
In the city of [[Pittsburgh]], the numbered streets were originally named streets that were perpendicular to the [[Allegheny River]].  Sixth Street, for example, was originally named St. Clair Street.  The numbered streets were created by an ordinance passed in 1868.
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==== San Francisco ====
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{{Main|List of streets in San Francisco}}

[[San Francisco]] has two numbered series: streets, which run generally east–west, and avenues, which are north–south. The two series do not meet, nor are house numbers coordinated with cross streets' numbers.

The numbered streets begin with 1st&nbsp;Street in [[SoMa]] and end with 30th&nbsp;Street in [[Noe Valley]]. Some of these streets are only nominally east–west, which causes anomalies such as [[Third Street (San Francisco)|3rd&nbsp;Street]] meeting 26th&nbsp;Street in the [[Dogpatch, San Francisco|Dogpatch]].

The numbered avenues are in the [[Richmond District, San Francisco|Richmond]] and [[Sunset District, San Francisco|Sunset District]]s beginning with 2nd&nbsp;Avenue and continuing westward to 48th&nbsp;Avenue, which runs parallel to the Pacific Ocean shore.

==== St. Louis====
{{main|Numbered streets of St. Louis}}
Number streets of [[St. Louis]], Missouri, start at the [[Mississippi River]] and increase as they go west. Over time, the various municipalities took over and renamed most of the numbered streets with names.  However, a few numbered streets remained.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2016-11-20/curious-louis-the-mystery-of-the-vanishing-numbered-streets|title=Curious Louis: the mystery of the vanishing numbered streets|date=21 November 2016}}</ref>

==== Washington, D.C. ====
{{Main|Streets and highways of Washington, D.C.}}
[[File:Gallery Place.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|7th St and H Street, N.W, in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]
[[Pierre L'Enfant]]'s plan for [[Washington, D.C.]] includes both radial avenues and grid system consisting of both numbered and lettered streets. North–south streets are named with numbers, such as "[[7th Street (Washington, D.C.)|7th Street]]," and west–east streets are named with letters, such as "[[H Street (Washington, D.C.)|H Street]]." The name is then followed with a directional suffix (NW, NE, SW, or SE), specifying a quadrant of the city (e.g. B Street Southwest). The quadrants meet at the [[U.S. Capitol]] building.<ref name="google5">{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge|date=1920|volume=28|publisher=Encyclopedia Americana Corporation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wCIVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA787|page=787|access-date=2015-08-04}}</ref>

Within the city, the quadrants are divided by three streets known as ''[[North Capitol Street|North]]'', ''[[East Capitol Street|East]]'', and ''[[South Capitol Street|South]]'' '''Capitol Streets''', and by the [[National Mall]], which takes the place of the non-existent ''West Capitol Street''. Numbers start counting upward on either side of North and South Capitol Streets, and letters start counting upward on either side of East Capitol Street and the National Mall.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}
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====Statewide systems====
*[[North Dakota]]
**[[Burkle addressing system]]

=== Canada ===
==== Calgary ====
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The city of [[Calgary]] uses a quadrant system with a grid set. The east–west demarcation line separating the north and south is the [[Bow River]] west of Nose Creek, Centre Avenue directly east of Nose Creek, and Memorial Drive east of 36th Street. The north–south line is Centre Street north of Glenmore Trail and Macleod Trail south of Glenmore Trail. Streets run north–south and avenues run east–west; both are numbered beginning at the demarcation lines. Many older areas also have "A" and "B" streets interspersed between the numbered streets; for instance, in most older neighbourhoods the street directly west of Centre Street is 1st Street, but a Centre A Street runs for short distances in certain areas. Suburban neighbourhoods built since approximately 1971 tend to have named streets except in cases where numbered streets extend into the district. A typical (if fictional) street address in an older district would be "4214-19A Street SW". As a result, addresses of buildings on numbered streets are worthless unless the quadrant (SW, NW, NE, SE) is indicated.

The grid is based on the [[Dominion Land Survey]], with many of the main roads in the older areas of town (such as Crowchild Trail SW and 17th Avenue SE) following the lines that separate one DLS section from another ("section lines").

Avenues in the [[Municipal District of Foothills No. 31]] south of Calgary are numbered as they would be if they were in the city (with quadrant omitted). However, the basis for numbered streets in the Municipal District of Foothills (the "zero" street) is the Fifth Meridian (114° west), approximately {{convert|3|km}} east of Calgary's Centre Street. Streets are then numbered east and west with 16 streets for each one-mile grid road – or one street number per 100&nbsp;m. This leads to situations at the south city limit where the street number changes (e.g. 85 Street SW changes to 144 Street W). The impetus for this came originally from emergency response groups, such as fire departments and police.

[[Rocky View County]], which surrounds Calgary to the east, west and north, uses a different system of road numbers based on the Alberta Township System for land surveys. In Rocky View, range roads run north–south and are numbered in {{convert|1|mi|adj=on}} (the boundary of one survey section) increments west from the nearest survey range line (e.g. Range Road 51 is 1 mile west of the east edge of Range 5 west of the 5th Meridian). Township roads are east–west roads numbered in similar increments north of survey township lines (e.g. Township Road 264 is 4 miles north of the south edge of Township 26). Addressing is based on the distance west or north from the nearest crossroad (e.g. 264054 Range Road 51 would be north of Township Road 264). Roads ending in 0 are on their respective range or township lines. Suffixed roads (e.g. ending with an "A", "B", etc...) are between section lines (e.g. along "quarter" lines which split the 640-acre sections into smaller quarter-sections).

==== Edmonton ====
The city of [[Edmonton]]'s grid system is similar in nature to Calgary's, except that the two roads designated at the "center" of Edmonton were numbered 101st (Jasper) Avenue and 101st (Main) Street. This was done to eliminate the possibility that the city would have quadrants as Calgary does.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} The gradual expansion of the city now extends it east and south of what is 1st (Meridian) Street and 1st (Quadrant) Avenue. As a result, most of the city is officially in the northwest quadrant, but common practice is to not refer to the quadrant unless the address being mentioned is not in the northwest quadrant. The city limits do not yet extend into where the southeast quadrant would be located, meaning addresses will be post-fixed with either NW, SW, or NE.

==== Metro Vancouver ====
A grid system of numbered streets and avenues is used south of the [[Fraser River]], in the municipalities of [[Delta, British Columbia|Delta]], [[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey]] and [[Langley Township, British Columbia|Langley]]. Avenues run east–west and are numbered starting with 0 ("Zero") avenue next to the [[Canada–United States border|Canada–US border]] and going north, with the numbers incrementing each {{convert|1/8|mi|m}}. Streets run north–south and are numbered starting with zero lying in the [[Strait of Georgia]] and going east, with the numbers incrementing each {{fraction|1|8}} mile, just like the avenues. Minor streets named with a number followed by a letter (136A Street, 136B street) are situated between the numbers.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://members.shaw.ca/jack_brown/addresslocation.html
|title=Surrey's Street Numbering System
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|work=Surrey History by Jack Brown
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The city of [[Vancouver]] proper uses its own road numbering system, numbering east–west avenues from first at [[False Creek]] and incrementing south. Avenues are further classified with an "East" or "West" prefix (''e.g.'' E 41st Ave). Ontario Street (two blocks west of [[Main Street (Vancouver)|Main Street]]) demarcates the boundary for this prefix. The highest numbered street in the city is W 77th Avenue, in an industrial area of the [[Marpole]] neighbourhood.

Similarly, the city of [[New Westminster]] has its own numbering system with avenues northeast–southwest and streets northwest–southeast. This numbered grid continues into southeastern parts of neighbouring [[Burnaby]].{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

==== Other Canadian cities and towns ====
{{See also|Concession Road}}
Many small towns and cities in Western Canada use numbered streets. Some begin numbering at Centre or Main (0) as Calgary does, but others follow Edmonton's example and begin numbering at 1, 50, or 100. Examples include [[Brandon, Manitoba]], where streets, running north–south, are numbered; and [[Red Deer, Alberta]], where numbered streets run east–west, and numbered avenues run north–south. In [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan]] only the streets, running east–west, are numbered (aside from avenues downtown, which is numbered from 1st to 10th); there are lettered avenues to the west of Idylwyld Drive, which was formerly known as Avenue A (a stub of Avenue A does remain south of 20th Street though). Streets in the Sutherland district in Saskatoon have numbered 101 St to 117 St. This was done when the town of Sutherland amalgamated with Saskatoon, to avoid confusion with Saskatoon's numbered streets, which run from 1 to 71.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

Numerous street numbering schemes were proposed for the various municipalities originally making up Greater [[Winnipeg]], but most were quickly rescinded, as the city is not built on a uniform grid and numbering was considered unwieldy.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} Only one roadway (Fifth Avenue in [[St. Vital, Winnipeg|St. Vital]]) retains its "number", but the street name is legally the word "Fifth" and not the number. Numbered roadways are also found within [[Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg]], but the street names within the base were chosen by the Department of National Defence and not by the city itself.

Numbered streets are less common in Eastern Canada, with some notable exceptions. [[Owen Sound, Ontario]], is one of the few cities that primarily use numbered streets and avenues. [[Saint-Georges, Quebec]] has a numbered system of streets/rues and avenues that extends into the surrounding [[Chaudière-Appalaches]] region. Many urban enclaves were established with numbered streets or avenues as part of their distinct character. [[List of numbered roads in Ottawa|Ottawa has several numbered roads]], notably in [[The Glebe]], with avenues numbered First to Fifth. [[New Toronto]] has numbered streets, running westward off of [[Lake Shore Boulevard]], starting at 1st Street (just west of [[Royal York Road]]), to 43rd Street, excluding Eighteenth Street and Thirty-Fourth Street, as [[Kipling Avenue]] and the [[Long Branch, Toronto|Long Branch Avenue]] replace them, respectively. The city of [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]] has a single numbered street called 18th Street, in the [[Waterford Valley, St. John's|Waterford Valley]] area; it is unclear how this name originated or whether this street was meant to form part of a larger grid system.<ref>{{cite web
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== Latin America ==
=== Argentina ===
Cities built on a grid plan in the interior of Argentina tend to use numbers for their streets, in the familiar even versus odd configuration, with the notable exception of [[La Plata]], where the numbering is consecutive.

=== Brazil ===
Some cities (such as [[Goiânia]] and  [[Rio Claro, São Paulo|Rio Claro]]) use numbered streets, though main streets might receive different names.

=== Colombia ===
All 1,119 [[Municipalities of Colombia|municipalities]] in [[Colombia]] have numbered streets divided into a grid, with numbered ''calles'' intersecting numbered ''carreras'', and the government of Colombia has a complete nomenclature to classify the streets. Occasionally main streets receive names, like El Dorado Avenue in the capital [[Bogota]].

=== Cuba ===
[[Havana]] has even-numbered streets running north–south, and odd-numbered streets running east–west on the west side of the city, with lettered streets from A through P running north–south beginning on the east side of Paseo Avenue. Some streets are named with a number followed by a letter (23 B Street).{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

== Europe ==
=== Germany ===
[[File:Quadratestadt.png|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Map of [[Mannheim]]'s city center]]
A notable European example is the city center of [[Mannheim]] where blocks are numbered in a grid-like system since 1811, and streets actually do not have names anymore—for example the houses in "street" B7 are those in the block in grid B7. The houses on the other side of the street belong to other blocks and therefore have another street name.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

=== Hungary ===
In the capital city [[Budapest]] there are some outer districts which have areas with numbered streets (and in one case, a numbered square), like [[Akadémiaújtelep]]. These areas are [[Planned community|planned communities]] built in the 1950s.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

=== Netherlands ===
In [[Lelystad]] some streets have a combination of names and numbers. The streets with the same name (but different number) are in the same area. In [[Botter (Lelystad)|Botter]] the names are Botter and Tjalk, in [[Galjoen (Lelystad)|Galjoen]] the names are Galjoen and Jol, in [[Schouw (Lelystad)|Schouw]] the names are Schouw and Gondel, although there are "normal" names there, etc. There are also other cities with similar numbering like [[Wijchen]] and [[Nijmegen]].{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

=== Portugal ===
A notable example of a citywide numbered streets system in [[Portugal]], is the city of [[Espinho, Portugal|Espinho]]. Espinho, in the [[district of Aveiro]], was mainly built in the late 19th century in a grid pattern, with its streets being numbered instead of being named. Streets running north–south are numbered with [[even number]]s and streets running west–east are numbered with [[odd number]]s.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

Numbered streets are also occasionally used in other Portuguese cities, but only in specific areas within them and not as a citywide system. This happens mainly in newly built neighborhoods, especially those planned in a grid pattern.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

=== Russia ===
==== Saint Petersburg ====
{{Main|Lines of Vasilyevsky Island}}

=== United Kingdom ===
With the notable exception of [[Milton Keynes]], numbered streets are uncommon in the [[United Kingdom]] because cities and towns are generally not laid out in grids. However, [[Trafford Park#Trafford Park Village|the Village]], a small area of [[Trafford Park]] is laid out in a grid pattern. It has north–south streets numbered from First Avenue in the east to Fifth Avenue in the west, and west–east streets numbered from Fifth Street in the south to Eleventh Street in the north. [[Birmingham]] has First to Fourth Avenues, but these are not part of a logical sequence, and Fifth Avenue is in another part of the city. The former mining town of [[Newtongrange]] in [[Midlothian]], [[Scotland]] has residential streets numbered from First Street to Tenth Street.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} Another former mining settlement, the village of [[Horden]] in [[County Durham]], has a series of numbered streets which were built to house workers at the local colliery, but today suffer from extreme poverty and high levels of crime.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-08-26|title='People are starving': village life in Britain's blighted coalfields|url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/26/blighted-coalfields-village-life-pit-village-people-starving-horden-co-durham|access-date=2021-06-13|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>

== Asia ==
=== Hong Kong ===
On Hong Kong Island, in the [[Sai Ying Pun]] neighbourhood, there are a series of streets named with numbers. They are part of a planned layout of the early development of Hong Kong. See [[First Street (Hong Kong)|First Street]], [[Second Street (Hong Kong)|Second Street]] and [[Third Street (Hong Kong)|Third Street]]. In the [[Fairview Park (Hong Kong)|Fairview Park]] development in the northwestern [[New Territories]] many streets are numbered, with sections named by alphabets.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://hk.centamap.com/gc/centamaplocation.aspx?x=822691&y=837696&sx=822691.79728&sy=837696.03593&z=4&lg=b5 | title=Map Hong Kong Center | website=hk.centamap.com}}</ref> A similar system is used in [[Hong Lok Yuen]] to the north of [[Tai Po New Town]] in northeastern New Territories.

=== Iran  ===
In [[Tehran]] there are multiple sets of numbered streets running from west to east in various sections of the north side of town. In many such sections, the street numbers count upward by two, with even-numbered streets on one side of a neighborhood, and odd-numbered streets on the other. The highest numbered street is 304th Street. The city also has other series of streets with a name combining with a number.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

=== Japan ===
{{main|Japanese addressing system#Sapporo}}

=== United Arab Emirates ===
In the [[United Arab Emirates]], most streets and roads are numbered. Most commonly in smaller cities, they are identified with a 4-digit number followed by "way".{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} [[Abu Dhabi]] has even-numbered streets running west–east, and odd-numbered streets running north–south.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} [[Dubai]] has numbered streets that simply have the number followed by "street" (e.g. 41st Street), as well as streets named with a number followed by a letter (23 B Street).{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

== See also ==
* [[House numbering]], which often forms an integrated system with {{lc:{{PAGENAME}}}}s
* [[Street name]]
* [[Route number|Road number]]

== References ==
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