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Hi
We've lived on some property for a couple of years that is located off a dirt road with no road sign, but according to neighbors and some maps, it has a street name. We're living in a cottage next to an unfinished house that we bought and hope to finish in the future, and we use a post office box for mail in the town where we work.
Now, for a variety of reasons (contractors coming to work on the house, getting material shipped there, emergency services, locating septic lines, and to give ds an address to learn in case he is ever lost!!) we need to get a street address. Any idea how to go about doing that? We went down the road a couple of miles and saw a house with a house number and mailbox, so I think it can be done. I've heard that we do it through the closest post office, and someone told me you have to go to the county courthouse instead of the post office, so I'm not really sure where to begin.
Thanks!
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We just had to do the same thing. We contacted the county enhanced 911 department and they gave us the address. We're now in the process of properly installing our mailbox and starting mail delivery. :-) Hope this helps!
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The county sheriff came to our house following my directions and verified our location. From there we got an address.

Ours came about because I was adding a phone line to the house and they needed our address for the 911 system.
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When we got this lane named we called the 911 offices and they helped us.
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