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With a few minor exceptions, there are two kinds of addresses in Clearwater County. City Grid type in and around Orofino, Weippe, Pierce and Elk River. Rural addresses are in the rest of the County. Because of the nature of the terrain and the fact that roads do not often follow a grid pattern, the County selected to use a frontage style addressing system.
The majority of the County is addressed using the frontage style system. Numbering begins at the start of each road and increases 1000 addresses per mile. Addresses increase from the roads point of origin. Even numbers are on the right and odd numbers are on the left. An address of 2503 Canyon Creek Road would be 2.5 miles up Canyon Creek Road on the left side. An address of 816 Nectar Lane would be .81 miles up Nectar Lane on the right.
Addresses on Highway 11 and 12 are the same except the beginning of the road is where the State mileposts begin.
If two or more houses share a driveway, the lowest number indicates the first house, the highest number the second house. If there are more than two houses on a driveway the driveway will receive a name. The sign will be blue with white lettering indicating a private drive. Road names may be requested for roads that have more than two houses.
Mobile home parks will be addressed using the rural addressing system. Roads within the parks will be named and spaces given addresses.
Multi-unit addresses may share a single address based on the main entrance and use unit numbers to identify each seperate unit. | 
