Getting a street number/address assigned to a vacant lot

[Robert Sullivan]

I would like to acquire some land or a lot, preferably at a low price. Here's the thing: if I purchase a vacant lot, I would want an actual street number/address assigned to it by the city or town so that I can put up a mailbox and receive mail there. I've read mixed thoughts regarding the possibility of this. A few things I've read said that a structure is required on the lot in order to get a street number assigned. OK, well what about an 'outbuilding'? I could get one of those pre-fab sheds that are sold at Lowe's and Home Depot and put that on my lot. Would that qualify as a structure?

I guess the question is: how difficult is it usually to get a street number/address assigned to a vacant lot or raw land?

[Mark Fries]

@Robert Sullivan You will not get an address issued to this property without a habitable structure on it. Sheds or other shed type structures will not work. BUT what you could do is actually just make up an address "out of thin air"... Find the addresses to the property on the left and the right and create an address that would logically be the next one in the numerical line, and put a mailbox out front and the Post Office is a bunch of complete idiots and more than likely they will just start delivering mail... I've actually done this a few times and it works flawlessly.