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.[1]
In Bay County, roads west of the Saginaw River are numbered with the river (or, north of the river, State Street) 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 (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.
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. (In most of Detroit, Michigan Avenue runs east west, it veers southwest at Springwells Street). Ford Road begins at Wyoming at the same latitude).
Ford Road (equivalent of 0 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)
Warren Ave (equivalent of 1 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)
Joy Road (equivalent of 2 Mile Road in Washtenaw and Wayne counties)
Plymouth Road (equivalent of 3 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)
Schoolcraft Road (equivalent of 4 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)
5 Mile Road—Fenkell Avenue (in Detroit)
6 Mile Road—McNichols Avenue (in Detroit)
7 Mile Road—No other name (Ends at the curve west of Kelly Rd. Moross Avenue in Grosse Pointe is not a mile road)
7+1⁄2 Mile Road—State Fair St. (Outer Drive E in Eastbound direction starting at Dequindre St. Returns to E State Fair Avenue at Conner St.)
8 Mile Road—Baseline Road (old name), (Ends at Helen St. east of Harper in Grosse Pointe Woods, with a 1-block stretch running east from Greater Mack. Vernier Road is not a mile road as 8 Mile Road continues east from point where Vernier branches off)
10+1⁄2 Mile Road—Frazho (Macomb County) (By alignment only. 1/2 mile road designation not used) Lincoln (Oakland County)
11 Mile Road—Townhall Road (old name)
11+1⁄2 Mile Road—Catalpa Drive (West of N. Main Street) Gardenia Ave (East of N. Main Street in Royal Oak) Martin Road (Macomb County) (By alignment only. 1/2 mile road designation not used)
15 Mile Road—Wolf Road (old name, Macomb County), Maple Road (Oakland County)
16 Mile Road—Metropolitan Parkway (Macomb County), Big Beaver Road, Quarton Road, Walnut Lake Road (Oakland County) Nunneley Road in Clinton Township (old name)
16+1⁄2 Mile Road—(In Sterling Heights) Lone Pine Road (Oakland County)
17 Mile Road—Wattles Road (Oakland County)
18 Mile Road—Long Lake Road (Oakland County)
18+1⁄2 Mile Road—(In Sterling Heights)
19 Mile Road—Square Lake Road (Oakland County)
19+1⁄2 Mile Road—(In Sterling Heights)
20 Mile Road—Hall Road (Macomb County), South Boulevard (Oakland County)
37 Mile Road—315th Street (old name, Macomb County), Gerst Road, Oakwood Road (Oakland County)
38 Mile Road-Bordman Street (old name, Macomb County), Davidson Lake Road (Oakland County)
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.
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 (a separate 2 Mile Road exists east of the Grand River, where Knapp curves north to what would theoretically be 2+1⁄2 Mile Road)
3–21 Mile—3–21 Mile roads
22 Mile—22 Mile Road (Kent–Montcalm and Kent–Newaygo county lines)
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 (Manistee-Benzie County Line)
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
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