# What's the highest street address in th world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 14, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-street-address-in-th-world/521256 "2009-12-14T19:46:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![sdbradly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sdbradly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdbradly)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-street-address-in-th-world/521256/81 "2018-07-17T15:50:30Z")
I managed to find a mailbox on Google Maps street view with the number 635683 on it on Highway 10 in Ontario just south of a place called Primrose. > [@Baffle](#): > > There are some house numbers in the 600,000s in rural Ontario about three hours northwest of Toronto. Unfortunately I can’t remember the exact street they’re on, but I think it may be Highway 10, which is Hurontario Street in Toronto, signifying that the street runs from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-street-address-in-th-world/521256/82 "2018-07-17T16:04:49Z")
I would guess it may be on a state or interstate highway. The highest number we have in the medium sized county that I word for is 41900 Hwy X. Though we do have some in the 98000’s on a regular road. Years ago, the county allowed the developer to assign their own addresses and they screwed it up royally. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-street-address-in-th-world/521256/83 "2018-07-18T08:47:16Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > For those that don’t know, house numbers in Venice are weird. Every address in a district has a unique number, adjacent buildings may or may not have consecutive numbers. I’m not sure how high the numbers go, certainly into thousands, maybe tens of thousands. > > I’m not sure if that’s what SOP meant, it isn’t clear, but relevant anyway. The Doors started out in the Venice district of Los Angeles, and addresses are almost as weird in this Venice. By rights, if they followed the numbering scheme in the rest of L.A., all addresses on the streets running east and west would have five digit addresses, and the house numbers would increase as you go towards the ocean. Instead, in Venice they increase in the opposite direction just as in adjacent Santa Monica. Even more weirdly, house numbers west of Pacific Avenue have only one or two digits, a thing otherwise almost completely unheard of elsewhere in L.A. I’ve never been able to find out how Venice managed to escape the 20th Century’s relentless drive toward efficiency and uniformity. (NOTE: Sorry about the late bump, but this thread did come up in the Participated section, using Tapatalk.) Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-street-address-in-th-world/521256/84 "2018-07-18T10:16:53Z")
> [@sdbradly](#): > > I managed to find a mailbox on Google Maps street view with the number 635683 on it on Highway 10 in Ontario just south of a place called Primrose. Their neighbour is [635687](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.087837,-80.1382738,3a,15y,128.71h,84.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJ7yewHVBzJyemVnwRsesRg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en). It’s a campsite, although the website seems to be down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-street-address-in-th-world/521256.md?page=4)