The first Kanawha County residents to receive new street addresses under a countywide remapping plan should receive notification from the post office with their new house numbers starting today.

Josh Knox, addressing coordinator for the Kanawha County Metro 911 center, said about 120 residents along Slaughters Creek Drive in Chelyan are expected to get their new street numbers today. State and county officials have been working to replace all rural box numbers and other rural addresses with city-style street addresses.

County 911 Director Carolyn Karr Charnock said county officials have spent the past year or so mapping the county's 93,000 structures. Some structures will be given completely new addresses, some will keep their old addresses and some will have their old addresses changed to new street addresses, she said.

Those getting new addresses should receive letters from the post office or county officials giving the new house numbers in the coming weeks and months, Charnock said. Knox said residents in the Cabin Creek, Winifrede, East Bank, Gallagher and Hansford areas should be notified soon.

Residents in the Hernshaw, Marmet, Belle, Cedar Grove, Mammoth, Pond Gap and London areas are also in the pipeline, he said.

Charnock said county officials are working to coordinate the mapping project with the telephone company to make sure each resident's telephone number matches the address on file for county emergency services providers. She said matching a phone number with a street address is the most important way to provide police, ambulance or fire service to residents in the event of an emergency. The coordinated list of addresses, phone numbers and maps should allow emergency service providers to find any address in the county quickly, she said.

Reach Rusty Marks at rustyma...@wvgazette.com or 348-1215.

The first Kanawha County residents to receive new street addresses under a countywide remapping plan should receive notification from the post office with their new house numbers starting today.

Josh Knox, addressing coordinator for the Kanawha County Metro 911 center, said about 120 residents along Slaughters Creek Drive in Chelyan are expected to get their new street numbers today. State and county officials have been working to replace all rural box numbers and other rural addresses with city-style street addresses.

County 911 Director Carolyn Karr Charnock said county officials have spent the past year or so mapping the county's 93,000 structures. Some structures will be given completely new addresses, some will keep their old addresses and some will have their old addresses changed to new street addresses, she said.

Those getting new addresses should receive letters from the post office or county officials giving the new house numbers in the coming weeks and months, Charnock said. Knox said residents in the Cabin Creek, Winifrede, East Bank, Gallagher and Hansford areas should be notified soon.

Residents in the Hernshaw, Marmet, Belle, Cedar Grove, Mammoth, Pond Gap and London areas are also in the pipeline, he said.

Charnock said county officials are working to coordinate the mapping project with the telephone company to make sure each resident's telephone number matches the address on file for county emergency services providers. She said matching a phone number with a street address is the most important way to provide police, ambulance or fire service to residents in the event of an emergency. The coordinated list of addresses, phone numbers and maps should allow emergency service providers to find any address in the county quickly, she said.

Reach Rusty Marks at rustyma...@wvgazette.com or 348-1215.