Important

Some of these streets may never have been within the city limits.

Some of these streets may have been private not public.

Some these streets may have changed names before or after 1912.

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In 1912 the City of Grand Rapids adopted a street naming and house numbering system still in use today This information was published in the 1912 City Directory. I have added subsequent name changes.
The master list Street Name changes 1857-2000

I have only mentioned the 1912 change to differentiate same names.

Some of these streets are outside the city limits so the avenue or street designation does not apply until either annexed by the City of Grand Rapids or the county's adoption in 1943 Kent County street name changes.

Later changes were made particularly in 1920 when there was an attempt to merge the names of short streets together as if they were one long continous street that jogged. Changes were made during annexations so as to avoid duplicate names or to match the existing City name of the street it would now connect to.

Even though the street no longer exists physically the right-of-way may still exist. For instance, when the freeway was created in 1965 it may be running over a former surface street whose right-of-way is being used by the new freeway.

The boundaries of the City in 1912 were along:

Bristol Avenue on the west
Burton Street on the south
partially along Knapp St on the north until Eastern Ave then Sweet St until Fuller Ave.
partially along Alten on the east from Michigan St to Burton St otherwise its Fuller Ave.