birdman

Looking it up on the fiscal officer's website, there are 2 parcels, but until March of 2012 they always had the same owner (at least as far back as the online records show). I was going to link to some images on HistoricAerials.com, but I guess I'm too new to include external links in my posts? Anyway, if you go to that website and compare the aerials, there appears to be a house on the corner in 1962, but by 1970 it's gone, including the little sidewalk out to the street.

Speaking of the annoyance of giving directions, it's a pain to try and find any address on Butternut Ridge Road: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Butternut+Ridge+Rd,+Ohio&sll=41.406284,-82.252729&sspn=0.01677,0.054245&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=41.332386,-82.067056&spn=0.016789,0.054245&om=1 It was cut off by the junction of SRs 10 and 57. The problem is the numbering system. House numbers on the east side of SR 57, numerically, seem as though they should be somewhere around the corner of Butternut Ridge and Grafton Road (on the west side). Amazingly, this also confuses MapQuest, Google Maps, et al. and they can never figure out (or at least they couldn't several years ago) that you have to find a way to Durkee Road first to get to the other side of Butternut Ridge. Even with human-given directions I spent a lot of time driving back and forth because the house numbers were confusing. To further complicate things, Butternut Ridge goes west and gets sliced off by U.S. 20 again, then continues up north: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Butternut+Ridge+Rd,+Ohio&sll=41.406284,-82.252729&sspn=0.01677,0.054245&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=41.317657,-82.11113&spn=0.016793,0.054245&om=1 -birdman

Here's a road that used to be together, but now isn't: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=north+ridgeville,+oh&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=41.37548,-82.018443&spn=0.008389,0.027122&t=h&om=1 Avon-Belden Road used to go straight through, with an at-grade crossing at the railroad tracks. Thankfully, they built a bridge over the tracks last year, so now there are only four crossings in North Ridgeville rather than five. Since there were already houses here, the bridge had to be built off to the west, with little spur access roads leading back to the existing properties. ...But they also got rid of the grade crossing on the original road. So now if you live south of the railroad tracks, you not only get the joy of noisy trains at all hours of the day, but you also get to backtrack to the main drag to go north on SR 83 rather than simply crossing the tracks. And, enjoy giving directions to visitors, who will no doubt be driving back and forth across the new bridge trying to figure out where your house is, since your street is still technically named Avon-Belden Road (it wasn't renamed "Old Avon-Belden" or anything, as far as I can tell, or at least there's no signage indicating such). It doesn't affect me, and in fact I benefit by having another option when there's a train blocking Maddock Road, but I feel sorry for the folks who live there. -birdman