County residents reminded to display new addresses

Boundary County Sheriff’s Office reminds residents who received new addresses to display them on homes or at the end of driveways.

“We had a call on a domestic disturbance and dispatch was given the new address, but it was totally meaningless since the home wasn’t marked with the new number,” said chief deputy Rich Stephens said. “It still had old route number and made it very hard to find.”

Nearly 3,800 property owners were assigned new addresses in the summer of 2007. They had until Jan. 17 to change those addresses to continue receiving mail.

Law enforcement asks that mail boxes and homes have the new numbers visible from the road they can respond efficiently.

“If you have a long driveway find a place at the beginning of the driveway to put the number  where law enforcement can see it,” said Stephens.

County officials replaced the HCR addresses with road numbered addresses to have more accurate and informative county maps.

The new addressing system, which accurately pinpoints the location of nearly every road, street, alley and driveway in the county, also was done to simplify delivering packages to homes and getting emergency responders to the right location.

The new addresses will be needed now that the county plans to upgrade its 911 emergency calling system for quicker responses. The upgraded 911 system will flash a caller’s location on a screen.