Mile Roads' other names?

**night-timer** · September-22-18, 10:54 PM

Six Mile Road is also called McNichols Road. Two Mile Road is Joy Road [[I think). Can someone give me a list of the names for the others?

Is one road chosen/designated [[and renamed) as a 'Mile Road' roughly every mile as you head [[north?) out of Downtown?

**Meddle** · September-23-18, 06:03 AM

I've never heard of anything other than Joy Rd. The only ones I know of are:

Five Mile Rd outside the city and Fenkell inside.
Six Mile Rd outside and McNichols/E. McNichols inside.
Seven Mile Rd until it changes to Moross on the eastside.
Eight Mile has a few names including Baseline Rd., but I can't recall the others.
I seem to recall that Nine and Ten Mile have other names, but only for short distances.

And no, there is no relation to downtown that I know of.

**313WX** · September-23-18, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Meddle

I've never heard of anything other than Joy Rd. The only ones I know of are:

Five Mile Rd outside the city and Fenkell inside.
Six Mile Rd outside and McNichols/E. McNichols inside.
Seven Mile Rd until it changes to Moross on the eastside.
Eight Mile has a few names including Baseline Rd., but I can't recall the others.
I seem to recall that Nine and Ten Mile have other names, but only for short distances.

And no, there is no relation to downtown that I know of.

Technically, 7 Mile splits of from Moross and terminates at Kelly.

Also, McNichiols become Seymour east of Gratiot.

**clubboss** · September-23-18, 06:46 AM

Main article: Roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit

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, western city, suburbs)
Plymouth Road [[equivalent of 3 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)
Schoolcraft Road [[equivalent of 4 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_R...tem_[[Michigan)

**Lowell** · September-23-18, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by clubboss

Main article: Roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit

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, western city, suburbs)
Plymouth Road [[equivalent of 3 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)
Schoolcraft Road [[equivalent of 4 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_R...tem_[[Michigan)

There is a feeble argument for Cherry Hill Rd. to be Zero Mile because that forms the line where the addresses count up or down even though, if one on counts down from 8 Mile, its Minus One Mile Rd.

**EastsideAl** · September-23-18, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by clubboss

Ford Road [[equivalent of 0 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)

Ford Rd is basically on the same alignment as Michigan Ave. coming from Campus Martius downtown [[before Michigan swings southwesterly to head off into Dearborn and beyond). Which is why, when driving eastbound on Ford Rd. near Wyoming on a clear day, you can see downtown straight in front of you.

**mallory** · September-24-18, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by clubboss

Main article: Roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit

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, western city, suburbs)
Plymouth Road [[equivalent of 3 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)
Schoolcraft Road [[equivalent of 4 Mile Road, western city, suburbs)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_R...tem_[[Michigan)

They might be the equivalent of the numbered mile road, but in my 55 years, I've never heard of these referred to anything other than their name. Must be a Wikipedia thing.

**Zacha341** · September-23-18, 07:16 AM

Maple is 15 mile right? Big Beaver is.........?

**Honky Tonk** · September-23-18, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Zacha341

Maple is 15 mile right? Big Beaver is.........?

Big Beaver and Metro Parkway are both 16 Mile Roads. Their names change in different 'burbs.

**JBMcB** · September-23-18, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Honky Tonk

Big Beaver and Metro Parkway are both 16 Mile Roads. Their names change in different 'burbs.

I live near Big Beaver, and everyone around here just calls it 16 mile 'cause it's easier than saying Metro Parkway or Big Beaver or Quarton. Heck, technically Walnut Lake Road becomes 16 mile for a bit.

Fun fact - 15 mile has the longest uninterrupted run out west [[next to 8 mile) - all the way to Milford road. This was handy to know when I was trying to get to Brighton one morning and I-96 was closed due to a jackknifed semi.

**Bham1982** · September-23-18, 11:25 AM

In the Bloomfield area, all the mile roads from 15 to 20 are renamed.

Maple, Quarton, Lone Pine, Long Lake, Square Lake, and South Blvd., in order.

Also, 14 is a dirt road in parts and barely exists.

**Malcove Magnesia** · September-23-18, 07:37 AM

Big Beaver AND Metro Parkway is 16 mile.

Is Long Lake 17 mile rd?

**yaktown** · September-23-18, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Malcove Magnesia

Big Beaver AND Metro Parkway is 16 mile.

Is Long Lake 17 mile rd?

I've never known there to be an actual 16 Mile Road. In Macomb County it's known as Metro Parkway and in Oakland County it's called Big Beaver until it's west of Telegraph its name is changed to Quarton Road! Similarly, 18 Mile Road changes to Long Lake Road when entering Oakland County, 17 Mile is called Wattles Road, and 19 Mile Road is renamed Square Lake Road. Further north, 24 Mile, 25 Mile, 31-34 Mile Roads all change onece into Oakland County.

**Colombian Dan** · September-23-18, 08:18 AM

I've noticed over the past 10 years with speaking in person to people under 30 and from various YouTube videos from Detroit, most Detroiters under 30 are calling McNichols 6 mile rd and Fenkell 5 mile rd. Not sure why young Detroiters are switching over....

**Former_Detroiter** · September-23-18, 01:21 PM

Easier for them to spell/text.

**Honky Tonk** · September-23-18, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by Former_Detroiter

Easier for them to spell/text.

The first settlers were really forward thinkers.

**rb336** · September-24-18, 12:25 PM

Vernier is NOT 8 Mile. East 8 Mile shifts after Sprenger with Vernier carrying on the Boulevard style, while 8 Mile continues on past Harper and ends at Helen

**eastland** · September-24-18, 07:37 PM

Eight Mile picks up again at Mack and then ends for good a block east at Goethe.

**JBMcB** · September-24-18, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by eastland

Eight Mile picks up again at Mack and then ends for good a block east at Goethe.

That Yorktown/E 8 Mile / Overlake road spot is one of the strangest tangle of roads in the area. It's like the developer was drunk.

**Scottathew** · September-24-18, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by JBMcB

That Yorktown/E 8 Mile / Overlake road spot is one of the strangest tangle of roads in the area. It's like the developer was drunk.

I think it's the invisible county line between Wayne and Macomb that's causing the drunkenness.

**Dexlin** · September-24-18, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Colombian Dan

I've noticed over the past 10 years with speaking in person to people under 30 and from various YouTube videos from Detroit, most Detroiters under 30 are calling McNichols 6 mile rd and Fenkell 5 mile rd. Not sure why young Detroiters are switching over....

It's happened well before 30 years ago. I've got cousins in their 40's and 50's who've always called in 6 Mile. I never called it anything other than 6 Mile, even while we all knew it had a proper name, as that's what it's signed on the freeways and such. Might be an ethnic/cultural difference. Maybe it was more often known as McNichols prior to the 60's; I just simply never heard the name used in regular conversation.

**Michael Hojnacki** · September-29-18, 03:57 AM

In recent years, people in their 60s and 70s have referred to McNichols as six mile to me at least. Interesting how the under 30 crowd has switched back.

**jcole** · September-23-18, 08:51 AM

8 Mile is also Vernier going east
6 Mile is also Seymour
And:
"When Detroit was settled, Campus Martius was deemed the center of town because it was where all of these main roads came together. It was the location of the first train station, city hall, and was deemed the starting point for the state's mile road system.

The distance between the north end of Campus Martius Park.
CREDIT GOOGLE

Because Campus Martius is on an angle, and Woodward Avenue is too, the mile roads are counted directly north from the park, and the roads run east and west. That makes Michigan Avenue "zero mile," and of course 8 Mile Road is eight miles away."
http://www.michiganradio.org/post/8-...ht-miles-where

**313WX** · September-23-18, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by jcole

8 Mile is also Vernier going east
6 Mile is also Seymour
And:
"When Detroit was settled, Campus Martius was deemed the center of town because it was where all of these main roads came together. It was the location of the first train station, city hall, and was deemed the starting point for the state's mile road system.

The distance between the north end of Campus Martius Park.
CREDIT GOOGLE

Because Campus Martius is on an angle, and Woodward Avenue is too, the mile roads are counted directly north from the park, and the roads run east and west. That makes Michigan Avenue "zero mile," and of course 8 Mile Road is eight miles away."
http://www.michiganradio.org/post/8-...ht-miles-where

8 mile is similar to 7 Mile, in that it splits off and terminates just east of Harper.

**bust** · September-23-18, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by jcole

8 Mile is also Vernier going east

Like others, I agree this is debatable. Some consider Vernier another name for 8 Mile, some say it's a different road, on a different angle, and that 8 Mile has been eliminated in places but still exists in vestiges East of Vernier along its due East-West route. I fall into the latter category, but we can both be right.