Development | Rural Addressing

Public Works Engineering Division through the Development segment, Rural Addressing, provides a service to county residents, emergency response units, and delivery services.

The accurate numbering and naming of streets within Kittitas County allows fire departments, delivery drivers, residents, and visitors easy access and location of each business and residence within the county.

This division primarily associates with private citizens and commercial businesses but also provides a service to emergency response and delivery services by providing correct, logical, and identifiable addressing throughout the county. The lack of duplicate addresses will ensure that emergency vehicles locate the correct address as quickly as possible. Adherence to the Kittitas County Rural Addressing Policy allows these same emergency vehicles, as well as delivery companies, friends, and relatives of Kittitas County residents, clear access to locations.

Policy overview and history

Development of the Kittitas County Rural Addressing Program began in October 1992. At that time there were an estimated 6,300* rural residences and businesses in Kittitas County without any type of address number identifying the physical location of the structure. Under this program all route and box number addresses were phased out in favor of permanent road name and number addresses.

This program was initiated in part by Washington State Referendum Bill Number 42, which mandates that enhanced 9-1-1 (E-9-1-1) be in place by December 31 1998. E-9-1-1 relies on the address to identify where a structure is located and cannot become operational until an addressing system, based on the physical location of the structure, has been implemented.

* Number based on 1990 U.S. Census Summary Tape File 1A

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