Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Polk County Records Inventory
Road Maps and Survey Notes
1852-[ongoing]
Series documents the surveying and mapping of county roads. Records include road surveyor notes, alignment, profile, and other survey maps, and road registers. Information includes legal descriptions of the roads; road names and numbers; plans and profiles; township, range, and section numbers; dates of activity; and scales. General road maps may be found in the series titled Road and Bridge Records.
Records at the Polk County Public Works Department Building, Surveyor's Office:
[Land and Road Survey Field Books-includes corner survey information-includes some timber company books], ca.1908-present (110 volumes);
Old Road Record [includes survey, establishment, and road viewer report information-no. 172, 203-314], vol. 1-2, 1852-1931 (2 volumes);
Road Records [includes survey, establishment, and road viewer information], no. 1-203, 1852-1890 (1 volume);
[Road Survey Strip Maps-State and County-hanging maps cut for scanning], ca.1925-ca.1970 (ca.5 cu.ft.).
Records at the Polk County Public Works Department Building, Surveyor's Records Storage Room 4:
[Road Survey Field Books and Notes-stored in green cabinet], ca.1930-ca.2001 (2 cu.ft.);
[Road Survey Field Books], ca.1943-ca.1970 (51 volumes).
Records at the Polk County Public Works Department Building, Surveyor's Records Storage Room 5:
[Miscellaneous Rolled Maps and Plans-includes roads, railroads, quarries, parks, fairgrounds, courthouse, and other subjects], ca.1930-present (ca.300 maps);
[State Highway Survey Rolled Survey Maps], ca.1925-ca.1982 (ca.50 maps).
Records at the Polk County Web Site:
Survey Search [Survey Plats-searchable by number, type, township, and date-includes corner restorations, subdivisions, partitions, survey notes, road strip maps, and related records], 1858-present (Internet).