All occupants/owners must contact Lawrence County E911 Addressing
to obtain a 911 address for new primary residential construction,
new commercial construction, any structure that has a new land line
phone service installed or transferred, or a change of address if
moved into the county or from one location to another within
the county.
Do not contact the United States Postal Service. They will
refer new or change of address transactions involving any structure
to Lawrence County E911 Addressing.
The Emergency Services Address Databases must be updated first,
then the postal service is provided with your new address information.
On October 15, 2008 the Lawrence County Board enacted an ordinance
to establish the Lawrence County Emergency Telephone System Board
as the Addressing Authority of Lawrence County. This is in
accordance of Illinois Statutes (55ILCS 5/5-1067) (from Ch. 34,
par. 5-1067). This ordinance also adds provisions for the
numbering of buildings and dwellings.
All structures in Lawrence County have been GPS located and incorporated
into a GIS mapping addressing grid. For those structures outside
of a municipality, the system generates a unique address every 5.28
feet making it possible to assign an address to every structure
in the county, including future home or business construction.
All structures inside the corporate limits of a municipality utilize
the current postal service traditional block addressing system.
