Irony Street & Misnomer Way

• Long Street in Asheville, North Carolina, is 0.2 miles (1000 feet) long.

• Short Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, is 1.6 miles (8400 feet) long.

• Straight Street in Forsyth, Georgia, heads northwest for 540 feet, then north for 360 feet, then northwest for 400 feet, then northeast for 700 feet, where it ends.

• Ocean Side Drive in Florissant, Missouri, is 700 miles from the nearest (Atlantic) ocean.

• La Paz Court in Salton City, California, is named for La Paz, Bolivia — highest capital city in the world — and lies 126 feet below sea level.

• Hope Avenue in Pierce, Colorado is a thousand-foot unpaved dead-end.

• Destiny Drive in Brunswick, Georgia, is a one-way street that circles around and ends up 150 steps from where it started.

• 1602 Happy Street and 1922 Moody Avenue in Mission, Texas, are next-door neighbors.

• P Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas, is the site of the city wastewater treatment plant.

• Trump Street is a narrow, crooked road in Daniels, West Virginia.  No, not that Daniels.

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4 responses to Irony Street & Misnomer Way

  1. Craig says:

    And all true (follow the links)…

  2. Rob says:

    Second St./Ave. is a more common name in the U.S. than First.
    https://www.nlc.org/most-common-us-street-names

    • Craig says:

      Possibly because Main Street is the principal thoroughfare in many places… Main plus First would head the list. Thanks for sharing this.

  3. Joanne Wetzl says:

    Long Street, that turns onto our Quinton Street in Stuart, is half a block long. Seems to be a trend.

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