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Adams
County consists of several addressing systems.
The city of Quincy and the adjoining “Tri-Townships”
(Ellington, Riverside and Melrose Townships) are a part of one
system, The rural County is a separate addressing system and each of
the 13 incorporated villages within the County have their own
system.
Rural
Addressing for the County starts with 0 at the South and West County
lines. East/West Roads start at the 0 baseline at the Westernmost
part of the County (Mississippi River).
All rural roads (with the exception of platted subdivisions
and State Highways) are named according to the grid system,
designating their direction and distance from the appropriate
baseline. All “N”
road designations indicate roads running East and West followed by
the distance from the baseline (indicating the road in North of the
baseline). All “E”
road designation indicate roads running North and South followed by
their distance from the baseline (indicating they are East of the
baseline). Suffixes
following the street number are a part of the number, such as
“603rd” with the “rd” meaning “Third”, “2400th”
with the “th” meaning “hundredth”, etc. The “Avenue”
further designates East/West Roads, North/South Roads are
“Street” and Diagonal or curved roads are “Lane.”
Dead end roads are called “Place”. Each 1-mile section is
considered a “block” for addressing purposes.
Fifty addresses are allotted on each side of the street.
This allows 1 address for each 105 feet of frontage.
Addresses are assigned according to the distance from the baseline.
For example a house located 10 ˝ miles from the baseline
will receive a house number of 1050.
Odd numbers are on the left from the baseline and even on the
right. On a North/South
road, odd numbers are on the West and even are on the East.
On an East/West road, odd numbers are on the North and even
on the South.
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