Suggested Searching and Sorting Method

For your first search, type your search term into only one search box (such as "Road name") at a time and and click "Search" or press "Enter" on your keyboard. Entering search terms in multiple search boxes at the same time will limit your number of responses and is not recommended until you are very familiar with the system. Since all search terms must be found, entering extra search terms may eliminate some results that you actually wanted.

You may sort the results of the search by clicking on a blue column header at the top of a column (Note: click on the actual column header itself), such as "Townships" to sort the results in that column by alphabetical order. This method will also sort the results in the column "Road number" by alphabetical-number order ("1," "14" and "1234" all start with "1").

Then, scroll down to the desired Township or re-sort the results by clicking another column header such as date.

Individual records maybe viewed by clicking on the blue “view” button next to the Road name. Next the scanned images maybe viewed or downloaded by clicking on the appropriate button above the thumbnail image.

Note: This program will give results that contain any letter or number used as a search term. For instance, entering the word "cleve" in the "Road name" search box will give results for any road name with the letters "cleve" in it, such as "Akron Cleveland Road", "Cleveland-Massillon Road" or any other road name in our archive with the letters "cleve" in it.

This same logic is also true with numbers such as using the numbers 50"as search terms in the "Road number" search box. The results will be all the roads in our archive that contain the number "50" in it such as "50", "506", "50a", "2450" and so on.

Search Tips

To ensure the best possible results try various search terms such as: current road name, former road name(s) or highway number.

"Road Name" can have multiple search terms. So, if you type "cle mas" in the search box, only Road Names that match both 'cle' and 'mas' will be returned. While this is handy for narrowing down results, you could narrow them so much that you eliminate records that you actually wished to see. For example, if you enter 'cle mass road', "Cleveland-Massillon Rd" would not be among the records returned (no match for "road".)

Current and former State routes and some Interstates may be found by entering the route number in the “Road Name” field. (5, 8, 14, 18, 21, 59, 76, 77, 82, 91, 93, 162, 176, 224, 241, 261, 271, 277, 303, 359, 526, 532, 619, 631, 764) State Routes may also be listed under their “common road name” (ex.: SR 93 is also Manchester Road).

Definitions

Road Name : current (or former) name of road

Road Number : county highway or township highway number. Not all roads have their road number listed. Additionally the road number is not the same as a State Route Number (example; Road number 77 is Schocalog Road not Interstate 77)

Townships : the township or city that the road passes through. Note; some of the data is abbreviated.

Remarks : a short description of thetype of record.

Segment Start and Segment End : the approximate beginning and end of the road section.

Date : date of the plans

Total Sheets : number of actual pages/images in our record, Not all records are complete.

Record Sheets : number of sheets listed in the record.

Reference : plan/record ID and type of record.

Recorded : if the plan is known to be at the Summit County Recorder’s Office, the recording information is listed.

Downloading Search Results

Click on the large blue "Report" button to download the entire data table you just created, sorted in the order you specified, in an Excel-compatible format