[Magdalen] Windy, waiting Williston

[Scott Knitter]

I still remember our ridiculous address in Muskego, a suburb of Milwaukee:

S67 W13882 Hardwicke Place

It was explained at some point that this grid system was applied for
emergency services.

Similarly, at some point the Michigan State University campus adopted
regular addresses. Previously an address there would be simply "136
Music Building, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824" but the post office
wanted a street address as well, so it became "253 West Circle Drive,
Room 136" or something. Saint Meinrad Archabbey's campus now has its
buildings all with addresses as <some number> Hill Drive. It's not
that big a place, but I guess whether for mail purposes or pinpointing
an emergency, that's how things are now.

Here in Chicago we have our trusty grid system: eight hundreds to a
mile, so our address of 6311 N Glenwood Ave tells you (if you're
grid-savvy) that we're just north of Rosemont Avenue and just south of
Devon Avenue, which is 6400 North or exactly eight miles north of
Madison Street.

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> My little town, even though unincorporated, was platted
> and street-named, and they just ignored our street names and arbitrarily
> changed them to names of birds.  Our land is flat enough that it was pretty
> easy when it was being settled to lay out roads along the grid lines of
> square miles, with a few exceptions for the river, and now our roads are 10
> (invisible)(not even any thought of ever paving them: it'd sure mess up a
> lot of farm land!) "blocks" apart.  It does have its positive points, but
> the system is still a pain in the neck.  I'm guessing that North Dakota,
> with a lot fewer humans per square mile, is going through the same (@%$#%
> process.  Got to have everybody pinned down to the square inch!




-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA