Andy_L
April 15, 2015, 1:16pm
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In many places in the rural US, no one ever bothered assigning addresses or even street names. With the Enhanced 911 emergency services, all houses need street addresses so emergency services can be dispatched quickly. It’s a process to set up new streets and house numbers, as well as entering all the info into the computer systems and GPS so it works seemlessly.
In a fast growing county I could see that being a full time job. In other areas it’s probably just a task for someone with other assignments.
Yeah, my parents live in a rural area - when I grew up, we didn’t have a conventional street address, just a rural route number, but a few years ago, a street address was assigned.