When I was a kid in rural Wisconsin. I lived on a dirt road with no road. It had a name, but few people knew what it was because the mail got addressed to rural route 1 and a box number. It worked out fine, everyone that had a reason to be on that road knew how to find it without a sign. Then in 1990, 911 came along, and they said every road needed to have a sign. So the county came through and assigned every road a number based on a grid system and put up signs with the new numbers. It confused people because it was new and there were lots of roads that were on the same grid line and got the same number but weren't connected. So the county came through again and tore down all the new road signs and put up new ones that had the new number and the old name. The name was really small and hard to read, but it was enough to get people to stop complaining. And thats how I learned the name of the road I lived on.