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 Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties. The roads in the Detroit-area system are laid out in a grid and named with reference to a zero-mile "point of origin" in Campus Martius Park in downtown Detroit.

Bay County

In Bay County, roads west of the Saginaw River are numbered with the river marking the origin.
  • 0 Mile—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

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—Calhoun–Kalamazoo county line
  • Mile— Mile Road
  • 1 Mile—1 Mile Road, Renton Road
  • Mile— Mile Road
  • 2 Mile—Stone Jug Road
  • Mile— Mile Road
  • 3 Mile—Helmer Road
  • Mile— Mile Road
  • 4 Mile—Sonoma Road
  • Mile— Mile Road
  • 5 Mile—Capital Avenue
  • 6 Mile—Cotton Lake Road
  • Mile— Mile Road
  • 7 Mile—7 Mile Road
  • Mile—Beadle Lake Road
  • 8 Mile—Union City Road
  • Mile—Woodlin Road
  • 9 Mile—9 Mile Road
  • Mile— Mile Road, Wattles Road
  • 10 Mile—Cady Road
  • Mile—Jessup Road
  • 11 Mile—Wheatfield Road
  • Mile— 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
  • Mile— Mile Road, Linden Street
  • 17 Mile—Kalamazoo Avenue, Old 27
  • Mile—Marshall Avenue
  • 18 Mile—18 Mile Road
  • Mile— Mile Road
  • 19 Mile—19 Mile Road
  • 20 Mile—20 Mile Road
  • 21 Mile—21 Mile Road
  • 22 Mile—22 Mile Road
  • Mile— 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
  • Mile—Maple Street
  • 29 Mile—Clark Street
  • Mile—Newburg Road
  • 30 Mile—Van Wert Road, Calhoun Road

Metropolitan Detroit

The mile roads are measured from the distance from Michigan Avenue in Detroit. So 5 Mile road is 5 miles from Michigan Avenue, 8 Mile is 8 miles from Michigan Avenue, and so on. .
  • Ford Road
  • Warren Ave
  • Joy Road
  • Plymouth Road
  • Schoolcraft Road
  • 5 Mile Road—Fenkell Avenue
  • 6 Mile Road—McNichols Avenue
  • 7 Mile Road—No other name
  • Mile Road—State Fair St.
  • 8 Mile Road—Baseline Road,
  • Mile Road—Toepfer
  • 9 Mile Road—School Road
  • Mile Road—Stephens Rd
  • 10 Mile Road—Kern Road, Labadie Road
  • Mile Road—Frazho Lincoln
  • 11 Mile Road—Townhall Road
  • Mile Road—Catalpa Drive Gardenia Ave Martin Road
  • 12 Mile Road—Champagne Road
  • Mile Road—Common Rd.
  • 13 Mile Road—Chicago Road Canfield Road in Roseville, Couchez Road in St. Clair Shores
  • Mile Road—Masonic Blvd.
  • 14 Mile Road—Townline Road
  • Mile Road—Quinn Rd.
  • 15 Mile Road—Wolf Road, Maple Road
  • 16 Mile Road—Metropolitan Parkway, Big Beaver Road, Quarton Road, Walnut Lake Road Nunneley Road in Clinton Township
  • Mile Road— Lone Pine Road
  • 17 Mile Road—Wattles Road
  • 18 Mile Road—Long Lake Road
  • Mile Road—
  • 19 Mile Road—Square Lake Road
  • Mile Road—
  • 20 Mile Road—Hall Road, South Boulevard
  • 21 Mile Road—Shoemaker Road, Auburn Road
  • 22 Mile Road—Waldenburg Road, Hamlin Road, Featherstone Road
  • 23 Mile Road—Telegraph Road, Old Telegraph Road, Whiskey Road, Coldwater Road, New Baltimore Highway, Yates Road, Avon Road
  • 24 Mile Road—Cemetery Road, French Road, Disco Road, Parkdale Road, Walton Boulevard
  • 25 Mile Road—Arnold Road, Runyon Road, Runyon Road, Tienken Road
  • 26 Mile Road—Town Line Road, Marine City Highway, Mead Road, Dutton Road, Brown Road
  • 27 Mile Road—Davis Road, Big Stone Road, Silverbell Road
  • 28 Mile Road—Gass Road, Gunn Road, Waldon Road
  • 29 Mile Road—Knight Road, Buell Road
  • 30 Mile Road—Sikes Road, Parks Road, Stoney Creek Road, Clarkston Road
  • 31 Mile Road—Hart Road, Predmore Road
  • 32 Mile Road—Division Road in Richmond; Fred Moore Highway, east of Richmond, Macomb County, Romeo Road
  • 33 Mile Road—Schooley Road, Brewer Road, Drahner Road
  • 34 Mile Road—Woodbeck Road, Mack Road, Lakeville Road
  • 35 Mile Road—School Road, Frick Road
  • 36 Mile Road—Dewey Road, Noble Road
  • 37 Mile Road—315th Street, Gerst Road, Oakwood Road
  • 38 Mile Road-Bordman Street, Davidson Lake Road

Grand Traverse County

In Grand Traverse County, the mile roads are numbered from the location of the Boardman River and the ghost town of Keystone, named after its location at an important point on the river.
  • 0 Mile—Keystone Road, Boardman River
  • 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, High Lake Road
  • 6 Mile—Six Mile Road, Haaland Road
  • 7 Mile—Lautner Road
  • 8 Mile—Bates Road
  • 9 Mile
  • 10 Mile—Williamsburg 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 Road

Manistee County

In Manistee County, roads are numbered north from the village of Eastlake
  • 0 Mile—M-55
  • 1 Mile—Pine Creek Road
  • 2 Mile—Guenthardt Road
  • 3 Mile—Becker Road, River Road
  • 4 Mile
  • 5 Mile—River Road
  • 6 Mile—Coates Highway
  • 7 Mile—Kerry Road
  • 8 Mile—8 Mile Road
  • 9 Mile—9 Mile Road
  • 10 Mile—Maidens Road
  • 11 Mile—11 Mile Road
  • 12 Mile—Potter Road
  • 13 Mile—13 Mile Road
  • 14 Mile
  • 15 Mile—Alkire Road
  • 16 Mile—Lumley Road
  • 17 Mile—Glovers Lake Road
  • 18 Mile—Manke Road, Kernberger Road)
  • 19 Mile—County Line Road

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