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[was_tansu_now_badhedgehog]

I don't get US street numbering. How can a street with 15 houses on it have numbering that runs from 8100 to 8182? It starts in the wrong place and finishes in the wrong place. It is incorrect not only in startpoint, but in range.

Why aren't the houses numbered from 1 to 15?

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[boxcat.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that street numbering schemes may differ from state to state.

IIRC, at least one uses street addresses to mean "distance in metres from the start of the street to (possibly hypothetical mailbox), odd numbers on one side, even numbers on the other".

But that could be a different country, and not the US at all.

[hatgrlstargazer.livejournal.com]

Yep, Vermont's system is that one. It's not actually in meters, but it is a distance scale (I don't recall what the scale is exactly). They instituted that system in the 90s when the state got 911, changing everyone's address and even some street names to make them less ambiguous (my town alone had two streets known as "Old Route 30", both of which needed real names). Prior to that point, all the rural areas had Rural Route box numbers instead of actual street addresses.