The Fallon County Commissioners held a public input meeting Wednesday to discuss sharing the county’s addresses with the Montana State Cadastral and Address Management System (AMS).
According to Fallon County Disaster Emergency Services (DES) Coordinator Desiree Thielen, the county has never shared registered addresses with entities outside of the county, including the state of Montana. Sharing the addresses would bring uniformity to the state’s cadastral, which is by companies such as UPS, FedEx, and onX to verify addresses. Thielen explained that this uniformity would likely help remedy “unverified address” issues in delivery systems (when shopping online, for example), and would also assist emergency services.
No action is required on the part of Fallon County residents for the update, but the complete update could take from six months to a year to be fully complete in the cadastral according to Thielen.
The largest change Fallon County residents will see is if you are used to your address as being “predirectional“, meaning the cardinal direction (N, S, E, W, etc.) appears immediately before the street name. With the update, it will be entered as “postdirectional”, so the direction will follow the street name instead.