How to get address and mail service to undeveloped property?

Our 911 is not the place to get your address. Please note my comments. I live in the same county and work in and around this stuff. But go ahead and call them. LOL

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should be free and from PO..also..pick up a box and post and put it on the correct side of the road for mail delivery in your area and within 6 or 10 feet of your drive that you'll access the mail from..in case there is free stuff being delivered in the area, we get a free newspaper on Mondays here...and they go to all the places that have boxes that don't subscribe to paper...in the country always oversize your box..and make sure it is set properly from road and correct height..po has that info.

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Not the place to get it, but good idea for them to confirm just in case you need help. My lender required 911 confirm.

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They share here and fairly quickly. In a earlier post I explained how to start the process. Just trying to point and hopefully save some steps and effort. We are getting real close to having frost and/or freezing night time temps. He will be busy just getting ready for winter. Not being sure where he bought, he may be in a woodstove restrictions area or at the very least requiring certain kind of stoves. Hope not but his mileage quote from town he might just be. The basin suffers from inversions horribly during winter. And from smoke during wildfire season.

And with fire restrictions in effect now he can't cut firewood on federal lands and could easily have time constraints on private lands in using his saw now too.

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"If you want to fly under the radar for a bit, ie the code enforcement officer, having your rural delivery set up might be a tip off. I don't know for sure, just being paranoid. If your mail is coming from the city of Klamath, they're big enough no one may notice. Might be worth the price of a PO Box."

Vosey- that is a very good point. From my place it's about 30 miles to Klamath. It might be a drag to drive 60 miles just to check my mail lol! What's my priority, secrecy or gas/money/time? Hmm.

"Mailboxes are robbed daily though so prepare your mailbox accordingly. "

Yeah, this and vandalism are things I keep hearing a lot about. It is a 2-mile drive out to the highway where everyones mailboxes are located, so not exactly secure. I think I might just try for a PO Box if they give me one without a physical address or the "general delivery" option my neighbor told me about. Then again, someone mentioned me not being able to get a driver's license without a physical address. ----.

At first I went to town one a week, because it was so very quiet out here! I would get restless nd head on out even if I was not out of groceries, etc, yet.

If you also go once a week, piggyback all of the errands in one trip or the gas costs a lot. If you get the mail weekly then also get the groceries while you are in town and also get hit the library and so forth and so on. It's cheaper that way.

"They share here and fairly quickly. In a earlier post I explained how to start the process. Just trying to point and hopefully save some steps and effort. We are getting real close to having frost and/or freezing night time temps. He will be busy just getting ready for winter. Not being sure where he bought, he may be in a woodstove restrictions area or at the very least requiring certain kind of stoves. Hope not but his mileage quote from town he might just be. The basin suffers from inversions horribly during winter. And from smoke during wildfire season.

And with fire restrictions in effect now he can't cut firewood on federal lands and could easily have time constraints on private lands in using his saw now too."

Echoesechos- I'm a little wary of giving my exact location, since I trying to stay under radar until I feel I'm able to satisfy the demands and requirements of the land-use authorities, but I am about 5,000 in elevation in the Bonanza area. I've been warned about the winters, but I have no other place to go for hibernation, so I have to stay on my property and make it work. No time or money now to build a cabin, so I will be in a 1987 motorhome with my two big dogs. I have a 23,000 BTU kerosene heater and lots of warm clothing/bedding. I'm having delays in getting up the gas money and such to get everything moved down, but hopefully before snow starts falling. I'm going to try to get some work through the temp agencies here in Washington this week to get more money for gas to get down there, as well as food to last through winter. It's not ideal timing, but like I said, I have no where else to go. I've been couch-surfing while I work on this project, but I don't think that's an option for the entire winter.

I sure hope it works out for you. We quite often get Indian summer's but night time temps will still be cold. It was 32° this morning. I'm at 4600' so I feel your pain. You might see if you can acquire some straw bales to put around the base of your motor home so your pipes don't freeze. It's the outside pipe situation that will be critical. You might be able to get by for awhile with general delivery. There are lots of folks in the same boat. It is a pain to get licenses renewed, even to get any services. I know some folks have a hard asking for help but the Oregon trail program might be good place to help with the food situation. You don't want to be stuck without during winter.

I've been thinking about your fencing problem. Is it pumice rock or granite rock? Pumice can be whittled away but well granite.... where the pastures you mentioned, well it's why they are there. Not so many rocks. You'll think you've got all the rocks picked up and then winter comes and heaves more up. Vicious cycle.

Watch for snakes. I read your area you posted. They are in your area. Have you seen the midge swarms around the lake? Kinda freaky, not real obvious but you will think the air is warping. It's just them. Keep them washed off your rig, noxious things and they will start smelling. They are unique to Klamath County.

I'm thinking you might have to build your dog pen more or less freestanding with lumber. Have cross pieces running along the ground, center and top pieces then attach wire to that. Sorry I have no other suggestions. Remember Klamath has a extension service who might have some great ideas. Talk to Jed, he's really nice. They might have an area you can email your questions in too.

As I said, good luck.

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That's what I did. YOu might have to go to the nearest road and put up a box.

I got mine the next day with no physical contact. I put up a box and raised the flag with a note.

How can the property owner refuse you the right of erecting a mail box on the right of way?

It sounds like it's been answered for where you are, but I'll tell you what I know for my area. I work for city government, and I'm the person who assigns all the addresses within the city limits. I then forward the address I assign to the Post Office, all utilities, and emergency services. The county also has a person who does the same thing.

Addressing is not simple. I had no idea until I started doing it. Ranges, evens, odds, going from the center of the county, street names, directionals. If the wrong directional is given here, which happened not long because the person didn't know, emergencies services went in the opposite direction. It delayed the response by several minutes. We're still not sure how it happened now with GIS and GPS, but it did.

Anyway, call your local government and they'll get you an address.

When I built here there already was a driveway because there had been a house trailer here for about 20 years and it burned down and was gone before I bought the property. Even though I had a driveway and a garage I still had to go to the road commission and pay $15 for a Driveway Permit and it came with a house number.

Thanks for all the great tips you guys! Next time I head down there I will talk to the post office about my options. I'm sure there has to be an easy way to get mail.

To get an address before I started building was simple here.
I went to the Office of Emergency Management with my deed and description, to have a 911 address assigned. Since it was off what used to be a County road 20 yrs ago, they even let me rename the road. They assigned me an address, then submitted it to the Post Office while I was there, where it was accepted.

3 days later they had a County road sign placed off by the road....a day later it was stolen , which is fine by me.

I keep a box in town, about 20 miles away, so won't have delivery there of mail.

Its his land he can give you that privilege or not, heck he can even charge for it!

If you are going to burn kerosene, please, please, please buy a carbon monoxide detector. Otherwise you might wake up dead one morning! I have a Corona DK2 heater in my cabin, and one night I woke up with an awful headache. I quickly turned off the stove and rushed outside to get fresh air.

I subsequenly purchased a battery powered carbon monoxide detector like this for 20$
http://www.homedepot.com/s/carbon%25...etector?NCNI-5
When suspending my detector above the heater I saw measurable CO being produced. Typically I lit my heater outside, let it heat up for 5 minutes, then brought it in. I was using a new wick, and always made sure the burner had a blue flame, and I still detected measurable CO! I've since then installed my woodstoves in both the living room and kitchen, and haven't had to use the heater since.

Take this very seriously!