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All the searches I have tried, and I've tried many, will not answer a basic question I have had since before I set foot on the island years ago. What system of numbering is in use to designate addresses? My address starts with 16-. Okay, what does 16- tell me? 16-18842 must mean someting. Maps sometimes list numbers like this along a highway. On the highway itself I see a mile number sign measured out of Hilo (though strangely starting from a back street). The post office listings I have tried ignore that there must be some system of numbering in use. I understand that we do not have a block system with a given starting point, but what IS in use? Anyone know? Maybe I'm just not here.
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like a Zip code, just another number to denote what district it's in. My number in HPP starts with 15. My mail box in Keaau (not PO Box) starts with 16. I don't know, but lets say Pahoa address would start with a 17 ,, and so on. I can't tell you where to find a list of where the specific numbers apply to.
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The address system was developed on a "pie Grid" in the 30's dividing up the island into 9 zones each subdivided into 9 sections - the 1st 2 numbers denote the zone & section...coinciding with the parecel zone & section- starting at the Southeast (Kaimu/Kalapana) & running counterclockwise. Hawi at the top of the county is 55, Kailua Kona is 75) the other numbers are relative distances from the section starting point (most are 2-4 numbers...not sure about a 5 number)
So this address is in zone 1 (most of Puna ) and section 6 (along 130 - most of HPP is section 5, Keaau is section 6 - then do a pie wedge up the mountain...)
Hilo has address numbers that may not be on the county system, as Hilo had an established system prior to the universal county system.
ADD - whereas the ZIP code the first 3 numbers are regional & district (967 gets you to Honolulu sort station); the last two are alphabetic (so Hawi is before Hilo and after Hana & Halapepe) the + 4 gets you to the routing within the local post office (carrier routing)
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isnt mile marker '0' in Hilo, right next to Kens House of Pancakes on the hwy (between Kens and HPM)??? thats not a back street, its a hwy
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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there is a '0' in Hilo and Kailua. In Hilo '0' is the start of Highway 11 and in Kailua the '0' is when 11 changes into 19 to go around the north end of the island. Hope this is what you were asking.
Royall
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The standardized county address numbering is not based on MILES (that is the mile marker's job, and as Royall pointed out, begins at the beginning of a route) The address system is based on the county zoning maps that section off the county into 9 zones all pie-ish shaped, and within each of these zones, nine sections, pie-sliced like, so the county is sectioned off into 81 sections within 9 zones (this is very similar to the original land divisions within the Hawaiian feudal system, the ahupua`a sections were mountain to ocean section, also pie slice-ish, containing (hopefully) the resources for the people residing within to survive
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Most people are familiar with street addresses numbering even numbers on one side of the street and odd numbers on the other. Napolean is credited with that idea ....while in Egypt.
Hollywood has exagerated how it happened...but it's a good story anyway.
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Anybody ever have a mainland shipper tell you their fraud detection system says that your address, with the two digits and the dash, is a phony and they can't ship to you? I have.
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USPS (and others) will still understand the address if it is exactly six digits, no dash (pad suffix with leading 0s if you're that close to the RP).
eg a hypothetical 19-123 becomes "190123".
Because the suffix is a simple distance-vector, it is not guaranteed unique. There might be more than one 19-123; if plotted on a map, the points will form an arc.
District 9 zone 9 is "magically" all government buildings.
