Trivia hunt!

[kickaha]

So we're watching South Park tonight, when gingko asks... "Where's zip code 10465? Harlem by any chance?" Turns out she's right. When I asked what brought that up, she mentioned that it's Chef's house number on South Park.

I'd noticed that the house numbers were... big... for a small town, but I never realized they were (almost) all five digits. (Butters' house is 1020.)

I've been looking for a list of the house numbers online, but haven't been able to... anyone?

Comments

[kimokeane.livejournal.com]

In Colorado, or at least in Denver specifically, you get a lot of house numbers like you see in SP, i.e. in the format "##-##,###". It's some kind of custom in that area, but I don't know it's origin.

I never tried to take the last 5 and make them Zip codes...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Whahuh? Not just a single number, but something that looks like a coordinate? Wacky. Must investigate.

On the West Coast (WA/OR/CA) it's common to have a cartesian grid overlaid onto a county, and all numbers in the county be based off a standardized 'block size' from a common origin. In King Co (Seattle) for instance, you can navigate to a lot of locations solely from the address, no directions needed. There are non-regular roads in places, but the vast majority of the county adopted the same numbering system. Heck, if you're familiar with county a bit, you don't even need a city name, just the number and street.

Avenues run N/S, Streets run E/W. A compass 'point' in the street name gives you the box in a tic-tac-toe around the city center. So 4319 8th Ave NE is 43 blocks north of the edge of downtown, 8 blocks east from the eastern edge of the downtown section. You also know that the building is on the west side of the street, because the even/odd is very regular as well.

We used to be pricks to folks asking for directions and give them addresses that were, say, in the middle of a lake. :)

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

We used to be pricks to folks asking for directions and give them addresses that were, say, in the middle of a lake. :)

Used to be?