Mile Road System (Michigan)

Mile Road System (Michigan)

Several counties in the state of Michigan use a Mile Road System to name different roads and streets. The most commonly known system is that of Detroit, including 8 Mile Road, the dividing line between Detroit and its northern suburbs as well as Wayne County and both Oakland and Macomb counties.

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Bay County

In Bay County, roads west of the Saginaw River are numbered with either the river (or, north of the river, State Street) marking the origin.

  • 0 Mile - The Saginaw River
  • 1 Mile - Euclid Avenue
  • 2 Mile - Two Mile Road
  • 3 Mile - Three Mile Road
  • 4 Mile - Four Mile Road
  • 5 Mile - Mackinaw Road
  • 6 Mile - Fraser Road
  • 7 Mile - Seven Mile Road
  • 8 Mile - Eight Mile Road
  • 9 Mile - Nine Mile Road
  • 10 Mile - Garfield Road
  • 11 Mile - Eleven Mile Road
  • 12 Mile - Carter Road
  • 13 Mile - Flajole Road
  • 14 Mile - Rockwell Road (Bay-Midland county line)

Calhoun County

Going east from the county line between Calhoun and Kalamazoo counties. Many of the roads are known by both their mile names and their traditional names.

  • 0 Mile - County line between Calhoun and Kalamazoo.
  • 1/2 Mile - 1/2 Mile Road
  • 1 Mile - 1 Mile Road, Renton Road
  • 1 1/2 Mile - 1 1/2 Mile Road
  • 2 Mile - Stone Jug Road
  • 2 1/2 Mile - 2 1/2 Mile Road
  • 3 Mile - Helmer Road
  • 3 1/2 Mile - 3 1/2 Mile Road
  • 4 Mile - Sonoma Road
  • 4 1/2 Mile - 4 1/2 Mile Road
  • 5 Mile - Capital Avenue
  • 6 Mile - Cotton Lake Road
  • 6 1/2 Mile - 6 1/2 Mile Road
  • 7 Mile - 7 Mile Road
  • 7 1/2 Mile - Beadle Lake Road
  • 8 Mile - Union City Road
  • 8 1/2 Mile - Woodlin Road
  • 9 Mile - 9 Mile Road
  • 9 1/2 Mile - 9 1/2 Mile Road, Wattles Road
  • 10 Mile - Cady Road
  • 10 1/2 Mile - Jessup Road
  • 11 Mile - Wheatfield Road
  • 11 1/2 Mile - 11 1/2 Mile Road
  • 12 Mile - 12 Mile Road
  • 13 Mile - 13 Mile Road
  • 14 Mile - 14 Mile Road
  • 15 Mile - 15 Mile Road
  • 16 Mile - 16 Mile Road
  • 16 1/2 Mile - 16 1/2 Mile Road, Linden Street
  • 17 Mile - Kalamazoo Avenue, Old 27
  • 17 1/2 Mile - Marshall Avenue
  • 18 Mile - 18 Mile Road
  • 18 1/2 Mile - 18 1/2 Mile Road
  • 19 Mile - 19 Mile Road
  • 20 Mile - 20 Mile Road
  • 21 Mile - 21 Mile Road
  • 22 Mile - 22 Mile Road
  • 22 1/2 Mile - 22 1/2 Mile Road
  • 23 Mile - 23 Mile Road
  • 24 Mile - 24 Mile Road
  • 25 Mile - 25 Mile Road
  • 26 Mile - Starr Commonwealth Road
  • 27 Mile - 27 Mile Road
  • 28 Mile - Duck Lake Road, Eaton Road
  • 28 1/2 Mile - Maple Street
  • 29 Mile - Clark Street
  • 29 1/2 Mile - Newburg Road
  • 30 Mile - Van Wert Road, Calhoun Road

Detroit

Grand Traverse County mile roads

  • 1 Mile - Garfield Avenue, Garfield Road
  • 2 Mile - Town Line Road
  • 3 Mile - Three Mile Road
  • 4 Mile - Four Mile Road
  • 5 Mile - Five Mile Road
  • 6 Mile - Six Mile Road

Kent County

Fulton Street is the north–south dividing line of the city of Grand Rapids. But since Fulton Street is on a half-section line, Michigan Street is the baseline in Kent County, not Fulton Street.

  • 0 Mile - Michigan Street
  • 1 Mile - Leonard Street
  • 2 Mile - Knapp Street
  • 3–21 Mile - 3–21 Mile roads
  • 22 Mile - 22 Mile Rd (Kent-Montcalm and Kent-Newaygo county lines)

Midland County

  • 0 Mile - Downtown Midland, marked by the line formed by Eastman Avenue and Poseyville Road - located exactly four miles west of Rockwell Road
  • 1 Mile - Patterson Road
  • 2 Mile - Vance Road
  • 3 Mile - Sandow Road
  • 4 Mile - Homer Road
  • 5 Mile - Five Mile Road
  • 6 Mile - Meridian Road
  • 7 Mile - Seven Mile Road
  • 8 Mile - Eight Mile Road
  • 9 Mile - Nine Mile Road
  • 10 Mile - Ten Mile Road
  • 11 Mile - Eleven Mile Road
  • 12 Mile - Castor Road
  • 13 Mile - Magrudder Road
  • 14 Mile - Alamando Road
  • 15 Mile - Geneva Road
  • 16 Mile - Lewis Road
  • 17 Mile - Coleman Road
  • 18 Mile - County Line Road (Midland-Isabella county line)

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