In the context of this thread, “a place that has no name” refers to an unincorporated part of a county that’s residentially and commercially developed but lacks a specific and commonly used designation to identify it. People often use the nearest large city as their postal address even though they live miles outside the city limits. These places might have had names bestowed on them many years ago by settlers, railroads, the USPS, or housing developers but their use never caught on aside from a few mapmakers.
Yes. I’m in “Unincorporated Kitsap County.” I’m near some places that have names. We have a Bremerton mailing address, but we’re at least 5 miles from the city limits.
Out here, you can remember your name.
Hi, neighbor! I’m in unincorporated Kitsap County between Port Orchard and Olalla. We and everybody in the unincorporated sections immediately east of the city limits just say Port Orchard.
Including Bainbridge Island, there are only four incorporated cities in the whole county, so most of us are in a “Census Designated Place.”
I live a stone’s throw from the New York City border, just east of queens in Nassau County. In New Hyde Park. In unincorporated New Hyde Park. Not way west of here, as you might think given the New Hyde Park rail station. Not the part that has something akin to a “center of town”. (That would be the incorporated part). We’re actually closer to Willison Park, but it technically doesn’t start until you cross a major road to our east. There are also street signs welcoming drivers to “Manhasset Hills” just north of here. The locals call it “Herricks”, where we live. But that’s the school district, not the name of a village. Postal mail is addressed to “New Hyde Park”.
Our mailing address is Saint Paris, Ohio. But we don’t live in Saint Paris. We don’t live in any village or city.
When I’m outside out county, I tell people we live in Champaign County. When I’m inside the county, I tell people we live in Jackson Township.
My place does have a name. It also has plants and birds and rocks and things.
I live several miles by road outside the nearest incorporated village. That village is my mailing address. I’m on the edge of a cluster of houses that’s more or less a neighborhood, but has no actual name, and I don’t think it’s ever had one. Is that what you mean?
I used to live up the hill from Salmonberry on a street with no name. One time my father and his buddy got drunk and, in honor of all the drama taking place at the time, put up a official looking street sign that read “PAYTON PLACE Dr”.
I rode on a horse through a desert with no name. (But I never actually lived there.)
Sounds like I fit. I mean, It’s 5-10 minutes to the nearest city limits. That said, we do have sewers, unlike my grandpa who lived in a technically incorporated town (albeit very small) that didn’t. And there are a decent number of houses and businesses the entire road from here to town, so we’re not that isolated. Still, my road does turn to gravel past a certain point, and the one off the highway turns to dirt.
We didn’t originally have a street name, but then 911 addressing came in, and they assigned us one.
In the 70s, my family & I lived about 3/4 mile away from the County Airport.
Our mailing address listed Waukesha, but it was outside the city limits.
Our development has a name, and there used to be a post office about half a mile from here that was close to the name of our development. But our mailing address is a post office about 6 miiles away. There are lots of different town names around here, but I think only the county seat is an actual city.
We don’t get mail delivery where we are. My PO box is in a different county. I have a UPS box in that county too (we live right on the county line). I don’t try to make UPS or FedX try to get to my house. Though a guy down the road does. Sure it’s their job to deliver, but in winter I think it’s kinda cruel.
Forms often require a physical address, not a PO box, I just plug in the closest town (maybe 500 people).
Google maps finds us now which is nice. But I’ve made a .jpg of a map to our house to send to folks when they are trying to get here.
Well, it’s not like the horse was gonna come to you when you called him or her.
My sister lives in Carlin, Nevada but doesn’t get mail service where she lives, so she uses a PO Box.
While I live in an incorporated town with ones of thousands people, my road, which is a less than a quarter of a mile long loop and has 3 houses on it, has only had an official name since September of 2012. My neighbor to the right has lived here since the 80s…
Prior to 2012 the town just called our road part of the intrastate it connects to at each end.
It occurs to me, though I don’t think you meant any of this: the location is in a town, as everything in NYS that isn’t in an incorporated city is in a town. The town has a name. The location is in a county, and the county has a name. The hill that the area covers part but not all of has a name. The road I’m on has a name, and road numbers (which are also the fire/ambulance numbers, and are part of the post office address). But again, I don’t think the OP meant any of those.
I get mail/UPS/FedEx delivered, and town road maintenance including snowplows (but not pavement; this road is dirt, though the one it adjoins is paved). No sewer. Everything outside of the village is on individual private septic and wells.
GPS does seem to find me; but also to direct some traffic here that belongs on an adjacent road, which is puzzling, as the adjacent road is several miles longer and is a through road.
In Lorain County, Ohio there is one road with no name. I have spent a lot of time identifying old photos and am completely familiar with road names. I know why it does not have a name and in fact mentioned it in a blog article. It would be cool to live there but no one does.
I’m a few miles from Fairland, IN (local post office), on a county road with a number but no name, and cornfields on 3 out of 4 sides of me. But I’m still close enough to Indianapolis that I can’t really see the stars at night.