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August 5, 2008

Some in Kanawha County to get new street addresses

Staff writer

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.

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3 Comments

Posted By: booger (3:06pm 08-05-2008)

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Old Farmer, you're right. I worked with the WV Mapping Board for close to 2 years. I mapped out several counties myself. Took me 8 months per county, by myself. Then The great state of WV fired the company I worked for, so now all the work is flushed down the toilet. This could've been done, statewide, 2 years ago. Blame the WV Mapping Board for pretty much screwing over everybody involved. I still can't believe after all I went through; the cussing from people, dog and snake bites, long hours, moving all over the state every couple of months, guns and knives pulled on me, rocks thrown at me, was all for nothing. Thanx WV Mapping and Addressing Board, you really screwed it all up.

Posted By: Old Farmer (8:57am 08-05-2008)

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This project has gone on for entirely too long. Just a classic example of government taking a simple project and making a MOUNTAIN out of a MOLEHILL. Plus, dragging out the project, spends more tax dollars and keeps the "political" employees on the payroll for a longer period. They have added road names that are unnecessary and put up new road signs. One sign they put up in my area has been knocked down three time. I put it back up twice and will not do it again. I guess the public safety people will find us, if they look hard enough. What could have been SIMPLE has been made to be extremely COMPLEX.

Posted By: Robot Chicken (8:41am 08-05-2008)

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Theye should have gotten help from area fire dept's that way when a new street is dispatched someone would know wear it is.