Martin Luther King - Fort Sam Houston - U.S. Army

JANUARY 13, 2011NEWS LEADERStreet names change on Fort Sam HoustonBy Sherri Youngs502nd Civil Engineer SquadronThe Department ofDefense has directed allinstallations to implementaddresses usingthe U.S. Postal Servicezip+4 addressingsystem.This requires allbuildings on DOD installationsto be identifiedby street address insteadof facility number. FortSam Houston began toimplement thesechanges Jan. 1 and hasundertaken a post-widereaddressing initiativethat has assigned streetaddresses meeting thenew standards to allfacilities that receive, ormay receive mail.In some cases, therewill be no change to abuilding’s address. Inother cases, not onlywill the addresschange, but new streetnames had to be implementedin conjunctionwith the addressrenumbering, due toconflicts with streetnames already in use inBexar County.Since the advent ofthe Federal EmergencyManagement Agency’sNational IncidentManagement System,federal installations andlocal communities coordinatetheir actionsregarding addressingconventions to enhancetheir mutual emergencyresponse capabilities.This will bring FortSam Houston into compliancewith BexarMetro 911 and USPSstandards for addressingand street names.New street nameswere reviewed andapproved by an historicreview committee andwere chosen for theirdescriptive commemorationof the historic functionof the section of thepost where they arelocated. New streetname signs will be providedfor all renamedstreets or intersectionsrequiring new or revisedsignage.To facilitate a smoothtransition to the newaddresses the U.S. PostalService will keep the oldaddresses in their databasefor a minimum ofone year and will continueto deliver mail to theold address as well as tothe new addresses duringthe transition period.For Lincoln Housing residents,the USPS willcontinue to deliver mailto both the old and thenew addresses untilDec. 31, 2012.Providing the postwith Bexar Metro 911and USPS compliantaddressing will supporttwo vital initiatives. Itwill allow the PostalService to use automatedmail processingequipment to sort themail and deliver it moreeasily and efficiently. Italso brings Fort SamHouston into full compliancewith BexarCounty’s 911 emergencyresponse-based addressingsystem.For more information,call the 502nd CESat 221-4890. For LincolnHousing residents, callPatricia Baker at ASARCI Housing at221-0891.PAGE 7Old Street Name New Street Name Old Street Name New Street Name1st Street Sustainment Street Ingram Road Ingram Path2nd Street Signal Road Lawton Road Lawton Pass3rd Street Rattlesnake Road Liscum Road Meyer Road7th Street Commissary Road N. New Braunfels N. New Braunfels8th Street Conservation StreetAvenue9th Street Engine HouseStreetParker RoadRawley E. ChambersParker Hill RoadChambers Pass10th Street Paymaster Street Scott Road Winfield Scott11th Street Subsistence StreetRoad12th Street Chinese CampStreetS-2S-4Soapsuds RowGun Shed Road13th Street Supply Street S-5 Dragon Valley14th Street Wheelright StreetRoad15th Street Engineer Street S-6 Museum Road16th Street Procurement Street SR-14Manchu Road17th Street Storage Street SR-16Officers Loop22nd Street Replenish Street SR-21Howitzer Road23rd Street Chemical Street SR-26Trooper Road24th Street Jadwin Street SR-27Brackenridge24th Street Requisition StreetAvenueA RoadStock Road SR-31BandmasterB RoadArtificer StreetRoadC RoadCantonment Street SR-36Camp TravisCrockett Road Crockett PassRoadFoulois Road Foulois Pass Taylor Road MG Taylor RoadHancock Road Hancock Pass W.W. White Road Cpl. JohnsonHardee Road William HardeeRoadW.W. White RoadRoadPetroleum DriveHarney Road Harney Path Watkins Boulevard Watkins PathHumphrey Road Humphrey Way Williams Road Williams WayInfantry Post Road Easley Street Wilson Street Wilson Way