"Jim Herrmann" wrote: [Street numbering schemes in KC Metro] > The numbered roads are not avenues. The numbered roads run north and > south. Some of the east-west roads are called avenues, Kansas Ave, My address is 3000 W. 43rd AVENUE Kansas City, KS 66103 But that's because I live in the Rosedale section of KCK, which once was a separate city that followed the KCMO(Jackson County)/Shawnee Mission street-numbering scheme - larger-numbered streets to the south 8 streets per mile with section roads numbered 7 modulo 8 (31, 39, 47, 55, 63, 71, 79, 87, 95, 103, 111, 119) (at least outside Downtown KCMO, where they are a bit closer) addresses numbered E/W from Main Street - State Line Road is 1900 W. the assimilation merely changed the 'streets' to 'avenues', retaining the numbering system otherwise. At the county line, what Westwood calls '47th Street' is referred to as '47th Avenue' in KCK, between Rainbow [2300 W] and Mission Road [3100 W], whereupon the KCK name becomes 'County Line Road', and the house numbers follow the numbered streets -- 7xx County Line Road is several blocks west of 30xx W. 47th Ave. Although the road curves into Roeland Park's exclusive jurisdiction just east of Roe Lane, it resumes as Merriam Lane crosses the county line, where it retains its dual name, most strangely at the intersection with what is called Antioch Road in Johnson County, which crosses 47th Street/County Line Road to become... that's right. 47th Street in KCK. From that intersection, you can go in 3 of 4 directions and be on 47th Street (although if you want to be picky, going West you're just BARELY north of the actual county line, and therefore should call it by the KCK name of County Line Road). Then there are the numbered east/west avenues in North Kansas City, and the numbered streets in Kansas City North (which is not a separate city, but that portion of KCMO in Clay and Platte counties which in fact surrounds NKC itself, as well as some of the other municipalities), which get larger as you go NORTH instead of south, but have either NE or NW in the address to distinguish them from their mirror images to the south, which are NOT called SE and SW, but merely E and W....