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ELI5: how do residential street numbers work in the U.S? For example 742 Evergreen Terrace, where I live that would imply that there is at least 742 properties on that Street, with the odd numbers on one side and the even numbers on the other side.
gpt
It depends.  

Sometimes they are strictly sequential like you describe. Other times they might number them by block, the buildings on the first block on a street may start at 100, the buildings on the second block would start at 200, etc, even if there aren't 100 buildings in each block. Another method used in some places numbers buildings based on a formula that represents distance from the beginning of the street....something like 742 may be roughly 0.75 miles from the beginning of the starting point.  

Most of the time though they still stick to evens on one side and odds on the other.  

tl;dr - There's no enforced standard in the US for building numbers. They generally do follow a specific pattern, but it can change from area to area.