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Location: Paradise/Las Vegas 1,658 posts, read 7,281,797 times So you have numbered streets that run n-s,and e-w? 639 posts, read 2,592,750 times Numbered street and avenues don't run east and west, except for some parts of Tempe and Mesa, but these street's are not part of the grid. For example, I live on 44th st. and Thomas. Most people don't say Thomas road or Camelback road, we simply say Thomas or Camelback. When talking about the streets and avenues you have to say I live on 44th st. and Thomas, if you didn't say 44th st you could have been mistaken for 44th ave. It is a lot easier than it sounds. Once you live here you will know the way around very easily. Rule one, if it is an avenue, it is far! 3,632 posts, read 15,559,346 times Originally Posted by uconn99 Numbered street and avenues don't run east and west, except for some parts of Tempe and Mesa, but these street's are not part of the grid. For example, I live on 44th st. and Thomas. Most people don't say Thomas road or Camelback road, we simply say Thomas or Camelback. When talking about the streets and avenues you have to say I live on 44th st. and Thomas, if you didn't say 44th st you could have been mistaken for 44th ave. It is a lot easier than it sounds. Once you live here you will know the way around very easily. Rule one, if it is an avenue, it is far! It's funny my friend and I were talking about how this is the other day. So, for a tip, if you are talking to someone who is a native, or has been here forever, and you don't understand them make sure to ask them exactly what they mean, it may get confusing. Oh yeah, there are some named streets that run N-S, such as Tatum (which is at the 48th hundred block) and Scottsdale (72nd block). Location: 5 miles from the center of the universe-The Superstition Mountains 1,084 posts, read 5,574,294 times Several of the cities have their own little ways of separating themselves from Phoenix. Even if you miss the "Now leaving..." or the "Welcome to..." signs, the easiest way to know you've crossed a border is to look at the streets signs. You don't even have to read them. Phoenix has the classic white with black lettering except at some major cross streets, as did Scottsdale decades and decades ago. Chandler has it's Puppy-p**p brown with white letters, Mesa has green with white, etc. (sorry Chandler, but I lived there when they did the change in the late eighties and I didn't like it), This doesn't apply to every city, just like Tempe having to be different and run it's numbered streets in the wrong direction, as well as having to changes the names at the border, i.e. Scottsdale Road becomes Rural Road in Tempe, Hayden becomes McClintock. Glendale does it too. Dunlap changes to Olive for example. But the grid system is extremely easy to learn. On major arteries you'll always be driving N-S or E-W. Unless you're on Grand Avenue, and then it's NW-SE Holy c**p! I can't even use the word p**p? I can't believe this s**t! Who the h**l makes the rules on this @$*&%$g d**n board? 2,855 posts, read 6,156,599 times Originally Posted by aj661 Holy c**p! I can't even use the word p**p? I can't believe this s**t! Who the h**l makes the rules on this @$*&%$g d**n board? Aj, you had me laughing so much I almost forgot what I was going to post Thanks for the heads-up about the color of signs. I never realized that when I lived in the area. I'll have to remember it when I get back there. Location: Kingman - Anaconda 1,552 posts, read 6,106,457 times Lets clarify this a tad. Out west the numbers continue to climb up into 511th ave out in Harquahala valley. Odd address's are always on south or east side of the road. Evens are always North or west side of the road. There is one also for places plazas courts etc. they are divided by central as well. A ways back convience store kinda places sold a small booklet that had this info in it explaining if you wanted a address on a court it would be east or west side of town. Location: Somewhere unloading worthless FRN's 313 posts, read 1,127,319 times One quirky thing to know it that the 8-blocks-per-mile numbering system for North-South roads doesn't apply in the 3-mile-wide section from 19th Ave (on the west) to 16th St (on the east). It is one mile from 19th Ave to 7th Ave (a difference of "12") and then only a half mile from 7th Ave to Central. Then it's another half mile from Central to 7th St and then another mile from 7th St to 16th St. But going outwards from 19th Ave and from 16th St, the 8-blocks-per-mile numbering system applies. So 19th Ave, 27th Ave, 35th Ave, etc. are the major grid roads, as are 16th St, 24th St, 32nd St, etc. Also, sometimes it's convenient to use the "half-mile" roads as reference points. As the name implies, these roads lie half-way between the major "mile roads". Numbered half-mile roads are 23rd Ave, 31st Ave, 39th Ave, etc. or 20th St, 28th St, 36th St, etc.. Some named (East-West) half-mile roads are Osborn, Missouri, Maryland, Cholla, Sweetwater, etc. Once you understand the grid, then it becomes easier to know how the addressing system works. East-West addresses are easier to learn because they directly follow the numbering of Avenues and Streets. For example 4568 E Cactus is located on Cactus Rd between 45th St. (the 4500 block) and 46th St. (the 4600 block). North-South addresses are harder because you have to know the numbering system for the named East-West roads, which is not as consistent as the North-South roads. Washington St. is the dividing line between North and South addresses, but it's not a major grid road. Van Buren is on the grid and it's 300 North (three blocks north of Washington). A mile north from there is McDowell Rd, which is 1600 North. Continuing north, you have Thomas Rd at 2900 North, Indian School Rd at 4100 North, Camelback Rd at 5000 North, etc. So if you know these numbers, it's easy to find an address. For example, 455 N 3rd St is on 3rd St about a block and a half north of Van Buren. Another example farther north is 21001 N Tatum, which is on Tatum Blvd a little south of Deer Valley Rd (at 21800 North). Tatum Blvd is a North-South road that is named rather than numbered. 26 posts, read 131,974 times Originally Posted by CodyW I'm not sure why the east valley cities break the numbering system. Because they were cities separate from Phoenix and each other, so they had their own numbering systems in place, before urban sprawl merged them together.Location: Phoenix, Arizona 1,112 posts, read 3,791,999 times If that were the case - the west valley would differ from the system as much as the east valley does. How many blocks is 1 mile?How many blocks are in a mile. From our sample size below using major cities, the average number of blocks in a mile would be 20.3 blocks. However, blocks can vary dramatically between each city or even direction. So, it's best to use specific cities as examples.
How many city blocks are in a mile in Phoenix?So 5280/1000= 5.280 blocks.
Is 8 city blocks a mile?Oblong blocks range considerably in width and length. The standard block in Manhattan is about 264 by 900 feet (80 m × 274 m). In Chicago, a typical city block is 330 by 660 feet (100 m × 200 m), meaning that 16 east-west blocks or 8 north-south blocks measure one mile, which has been adopted by other US cities.
How many street blocks are in a mile?North-south is easy: about 20 blocks to a mile. The annual Fifth Avenue Mile, for example, is a race from 80th to 60th Street. The distance between avenues is more complicated. In general, one long block between the avenues equals three short blocks, but the distance varies, with some avenues as far apart as 920 feet.
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