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I recently picked this sign up at an antique store in Salem, Oregon. I've been unable to find much information on OR 42N, aside from a few mentions of traffic accidents on the highway near Roseburg in old newspapers from the late '50s. The sign is about 36" x 30" and made of wood. Is anyone familiar with this route?
We have 42S between Bandon and Coquille, with that route being the original US 101.
42N may come from a time when 42 was a two-section highway, with the current 42 being 42N and the one which is currently another state route being the southern section.
"OR-42 was created at the inception of the Oregon route numbering system in 1932, running 58 miles from US-101 in Coquille to US-99 in Winston, just south of Roseburg. This road was (and still is) known as the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway, though it didn't actually go between those two cities. The highway connected Roseburg to the Oregon Coast as it wended its way through the Coast Range, passing through small towns like Remote.
The route would stay this way until 1956, when US-99 began its upgrade to Interstate standards to accomodate I-5. For some unknown reason, OR-42 was extended southerly over at least 21 miles of US-99 between Winston and Canyonville, then southeasterly over all of OR-227 between Canyonville and Trail, ending at a junction with OR-62 close to Crater Lake in the Cascades."
http://www.angelfire.com/or3/oroads/roads/or42/index.html
Rick
The News-Review (Roseburg), April 8, 1954
Reconstruction Of Highway Through Oregon To Result In Route Number Changes
Highway reconstruction in Oregon will result in changes in route numbers, it is announced by the Oregon Highway Commission. As new highway sections are completed and put into use, new titles will be adopted. Changes will start during the summer.
Several Douglas County roads are affected. A new route number will be given the existing Pacific Highway between Drain and Shady. Winchester and Roseburg, all to be bypassed when the new section of U.S. 99 is put into service, will be on the new S.H. 235 route. The designation of State Highway 231 will be given the similarly bypassed section of the present U.S. 99 in Lane County, while the bypassed section at Cold Hill will be known as State Highway 234.
Another announced change brings the Tiller-Trail Cut-Off into the system as an extension of the Roseburg-Coos Bay Highway. The road from Winston to Coquille now is known as State Highway 42. This route is to be extended eastward over the old Pacific Highway from Winston through Myrtle Creek to Canyonville and east from Canyonville through Tiller to Trail. The section from Winston to Roseburg, following the present highway, which is to be bypassed, will be known as S.H. 42N.
State Highway 38, the Drain-Reedsport route, is to be extended seven miles eastward over the route of the present Pacific Highway to connect with the new route of U.S. 99 at Anlauf. Moving the location of the Pacific Highway to a site west of Sutherlin will replace the Y connection at Deady with State Highway 225 between Sutherlin and Elkton. The existing 225 designation for the Deady branch will be eliminated.
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Thanks for the information and quick response! I'm surprised that this information is so hard to come by. It's interesting that they extended 42 so far east, then truncated it just a few years later.
Great find NE2. I had never heard of 42N so I had to guess what it may have been. Thanks to you we now know for sure!
Rick
Interesting, I'd never heard of 42N nor knew of 42's extension down the Tiller-Trail Hwy.
I must confess I've never come across any information regarding OR-42N. It must have been
very short-lived, because according to a
Description of Signed US and Oregon Numbered Routes from December 1958, it was only known as a part of a larger US-99 Business:
QuoteUS99 - Business (Roseburg)
Over the connection with the Pacific Highway, US99, at Winchester, to its junction with the Oakland-Shady Highway, ORE235; thence southerly over the Oakland-Shady Highway, ORE235, via Roseburg to its junction with the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway at Shady; thence southwesterly over the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway to its junction with the Dillard Highway, ORE42, in Winston; thence southerly over the Dillard Highway to its junction with the Pacific Highway, US99, at Booth Ranch, approximately five miles north of Myrtle Creek.
Similarly, OR-42's description makes no mention of OR-42N:
QuoteORE42-
Over the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway from its junction with the Oregon Coast Highway, US101, in Coquille, easterly via Myrtle Point, Remote and Camas Valley to its junction with the Dillard Highway, US99 Business, at Winston; thence over the Dillard Highway, US99 Business, to its junction with the Pacific Highway, US99, at Booth Ranch; thence over the Pacific Highway, US99, to its junction with the Myrtle Creek Highway north of Myrtle Creek; thence southerly over the Myrtle Creek Highway via Myrtle Creek to its junction with the Pacific Highway, US99, at Riddle Junction; thence over the Pacific Highway, US99, to its junction with the Tiller-Trail Highway north of Canyonville; thence southeasterly and easterly over the Tiller-Trail Highway via Days Creek and Tiller to its junction with the Crater Lake Highway, ORE62, at Trail.
Finally, OR-42N wasn't listed below OR-42.
WARNING: Wild Unsourced Speculation Ahead
Given this new information, I have a theory on approximately how long OR-42N existed. A lot of route numbering changes happened along the US-99 corridor starting in 1956. The biggest change was that US-99 now ran border-to-border, utilizing the new Portland-Salem Expressway between Hayesville and Tigard. As a result, US-99 was now split into
three routes through the Willamette Valley for the second time in Oregon history. (The first split was in the 1930s before the Oswego Highway became OR-43.)
US-99's new status caused a ripple effect with route designations through major cities that same year. In Salem, for example, what is now I-5 was called US-99E Bypass in 1955, but US-99 Bypass in 1956. The old highway through Salem was US-99E in 1955, then US-99 Business in 1956. This technically means there was a gap in US-99 within Salem, though the 1958 description log considers the bypass to be plain ol' US-99. (This would also explain why US-99E started at the Hayesville interchange north of Salem; it would be strange for either US-99E to exit itself in Hayesville or run west of non-cardinal US-99.)
I'm guessing that a similar situation arose in Roseburg. As a 4-lane border-to-border freeway was becoming more of a reality, I imagine cities along the former highway balked at the idea of losing the US-shielded highway status symbol, Roseburg being one of them. As a compromise, the OSHC decided to redesignate old sections of US-99 as US-99 Business instead of or in addition to state highways, depending on the situation -- the 1958 descriptions log contains
four of them. As mentioned in NE2's article, old US-99 between Drain and Shady was originally christened OR-235 when bypassed. US-99 Business was added on top of the section from Winchester to Shady in 1956, where I imagine it would've ended had Winston also not lobbied to retain a US shield through town. The OSHC then likely decided it was absurd to duplex OR-42N for its entire length with US-99 Business, so it was dropped, probably sometime in 1955 but certainly by 1958.
What's especially curious is that none of my official Oregon state highway maps from 1955, 1956 or 1957 show OR-42N. There's also no Roseburg inset in the 1955 map, and the two latter insets only show US-99 and US-99 Business through town. More research is definitely needed; I imagine there's something to be found in the OSHC minutes between 1954 and 1956. I guess I know what I'm going to research the next time I visit the ODOT Library.
However much you paid for that shield, you got an incredible deal. I'm way jealous. Fantastic find. :-P :clap:
That shield is in great shape given it being made of wood and its age. Oregon used to have some really neat cutout shields, shame they retired them.
Pretty interesting stuff. I consider myself an expert when it comes to Oregon Highways and Routes, but I had never heard of 42N. When I saw this route marker, I just assumed that for a short time, 42 between Coquille and Millington was maybe signed as 42N. Very cool
I was going to start a thread on this route myself but since there already is one I will react to it. Does anyone know why this route got 42S instead of just a regular number? State highway suffix routes are basically non existent as far as I know. Ok I know there is an 99E and 99W in Oregon but that's due to them being former US highways.
Oregon seems to use a numbering scheme akin to US highways, so it seems that 42N could potentially have been Oregon 40. I don't know why it wasn't used, either.
42S is referred to as 42 South by us locals. Why "south"? Because it is south of 42! Back In The Day, US 101 went from Coos Bay to Coquille to Bandon. A 2-lane bypass was completed in 1961 that directly connected Coos Bay to Bandon, which resulted in the now-isolated former US 101 stretch going between Coquille and Bandon getting renumbered as 42S.
Rick
Quote from: Quillz on January 21, 2017, 01:35:32 PM
Oregon seems to use a numbering scheme akin to US highways, so it seems that 42N could potentially have been Oregon 40. I don't know why it wasn't used, either.
I really haven't noticed much of grid in Oregon. There kind of is a little bit but not like other states like South Dakota or Indiana. The S looks similar to a 5 so some might think it's Hwy 425!
Quote from: dvferyance on January 21, 2017, 10:07:41 PM
Quote from: Quillz on January 21, 2017, 01:35:32 PM
Oregon seems to use a numbering scheme akin to US highways, so it seems that 42N could potentially have been Oregon 40. I don't know why it wasn't used, either.
I really haven't noticed much of grid in Oregon. There kind of is a little bit but not like other states like South Dakota or Indiana. The S looks similar to a 5 so some might think it's Hwy 425!
Oregon actually has a pretty logical grid. Lower numbers in the north and east, higher numbers in the south and west. From east to west, you've got Oregon 3, Oregon 35, Oregon 43, etc. From north to south, you've got Oregon 18, Oregon 22, Oregon 36, Oregon 42, etc.
And some of the routes that seem out of place weren't in the past. For example, the portion of OR-22 north of OR-18 was once numbered Oregon 14. Why it was changed, I don't know.
As for suffixes, it's one of the reasons I like having letters half the height of the numerals. California used to have a nice aesthetic, with a half-height letter anchored by its upper-left corner:
(//www.aaroads.com/shields/img/CA/CA19280992i1.jpg)
I also like how South Dakota does it, with a half-height letter centered vertically:
(//www.aaroads.com/shields/img/SD/SD19660161i1.jpg)
Might create some legibility issues, but a nice way to make it clear letters aren't numbers.
Quote from: Quillz on January 22, 2017, 12:03:52 AM
Quote from: dvferyance on January 21, 2017, 10:07:41 PM
Quote from: Quillz on January 21, 2017, 01:35:32 PM
Oregon seems to use a numbering scheme akin to US highways, so it seems that 42N could potentially have been Oregon 40. I don't know why it wasn't used, either.
I really haven't noticed much of grid in Oregon. There kind of is a little bit but not like other states like South Dakota or Indiana. The S looks similar to a 5 so some might think it's Hwy 425!
Oregon actually has a pretty logical grid. Lower numbers in the north and east, higher numbers in the south and west. From east to west, you've got Oregon 3, Oregon 35, Oregon 43, etc. From north to south, you've got Oregon 18, Oregon 22, Oregon 36, Oregon 42, etc.
And some of the routes that seem out of place weren't in the past. For example, the portion of OR-22 north of OR-18 was once numbered Oregon 14. Why it was changed, I don't know.
As for suffixes, it's one of the reasons I like having letters half the height of the numerals. California used to have a nice aesthetic, with a half-height letter anchored by its upper-left corner:
(//www.aaroads.com/shields/img/CA/CA19280992i1.jpg)
I also like how South Dakota does it, with a half-height letter centered vertically:
(//www.aaroads.com/shields/img/SD/SD19660161i1.jpg)
Might create some legibility issues, but a nice way to make it clear letters aren't numbers.
There is somewhat of a grid in Oregon but there are a lot of violations to it. So one could not notice it unless they looked really carefully.
A lot of it probably comes from the 2002 project to assign numbers to routes that did not already have them.
Not as much as you'd think, as those were virtually all three digit secondary routes. A good number of them still aren't signed, so they're still technically highways.
(Yes, I'm aware how absurd that sounds!)
Quote from: Bickendan on January 23, 2017, 04:44:00 PM
Not as much as you'd think, as those were virtually all three digit secondary routes. A good number of them still aren't signed, so they're still technically highways.
(Yes, I'm aware how absurd that sounds!)
Coos County needs two "longer" routes signed while Curry County needs one. Coos Bay OR could get Ocean Boulevard signed and that would be 4 miles. When I lived in Louisiana back in the 90's, a street in Hammond which ran about about a fifth of a mile had a state route sign on each end, 4 digits long, almost as long as the street...LOL!
I wonder what would be the shortest state route in Oregon and the nation.
Rick
Shortest in Oregon at the moment is OR 204 Truck in Elgin at about 315 feet.
Quote from: nexus73 on January 23, 2017, 07:11:21 PM
Quote from: Bickendan on January 23, 2017, 04:44:00 PM
Not as much as you'd think, as those were virtually all three digit secondary routes. A good number of them still aren't signed, so they're still technically highways.
(Yes, I'm aware how absurd that sounds!)
Coos County needs two "longer" routes signed while Curry County needs one. Coos Bay OR could get Ocean Boulevard signed and that would be 4 miles. When I lived in Louisiana back in the 90's, a street in Hammond which ran about about a fifth of a mile had a state route sign on each end, 4 digits long, almost as long as the street...LOL!
I wonder what would be the shortest state route in Oregon and the nation.
Rick
For the nation, hard to beat VT 26, which is so short you can crabwalk it. It's really an extension of NH 26, but it has an official number.
Quote from: Bickendan on January 23, 2017, 07:52:46 PM
Shortest in Oregon at the moment is OR 204 Truck in Elgin at about 315 feet.
Shorter than a football field...LOL! We do have a "Truck Route" sign in our area but to find out a truck route was given a state number all to itself certainly qualifies as trucking trivia of the smallest sort literally! Then to think this tiny route is in a tiny town. Wow!
Rick
Quote from: Alps on January 23, 2017, 08:42:24 PM
Quote from: nexus73 on January 23, 2017, 07:11:21 PM
Quote from: Bickendan on January 23, 2017, 04:44:00 PM
Not as much as you'd think, as those were virtually all three digit secondary routes. A good number of them still aren't signed, so they're still technically highways.
(Yes, I'm aware how absurd that sounds!)
Coos County needs two "longer" routes signed while Curry County needs one. Coos Bay OR could get Ocean Boulevard signed and that would be 4 miles. When I lived in Louisiana back in the 90's, a street in Hammond which ran about about a fifth of a mile had a state route sign on each end, 4 digits long, almost as long as the street...LOL!
I wonder what would be the shortest state route in Oregon and the nation.
Rick
For the nation, hard to beat VT 26, which is so short you can crabwalk it. It's really an extension of NH 26, but it has an official number.
Thanks for the info. It might be hard to take a pix of this route unless one uses a microscope...LOL!
Rick
Quote from: nexus73 on January 23, 2017, 10:59:15 PM
Quote from: Alps on January 23, 2017, 08:42:24 PM
Quote from: nexus73 on January 23, 2017, 07:11:21 PM
Quote from: Bickendan on January 23, 2017, 04:44:00 PM
Not as much as you'd think, as those were virtually all three digit secondary routes. A good number of them still aren't signed, so they're still technically highways.
(Yes, I'm aware how absurd that sounds!)
Coos County needs two "longer" routes signed while Curry County needs one. Coos Bay OR could get Ocean Boulevard signed and that would be 4 miles. When I lived in Louisiana back in the 90's, a street in Hammond which ran about about a fifth of a mile had a state route sign on each end, 4 digits long, almost as long as the street...LOL!
I wonder what would be the shortest state route in Oregon and the nation.
Rick
For the nation, hard to beat VT 26, which is so short you can crabwalk it. It's really an extension of NH 26, but it has an official number.
Thanks for the info. It might be hard to take a pix of this route unless one uses a microscope...LOL!
Rick
NJ 59 is also seriously short - just one short block under a railroad - but definitely longer than 26 which is at 69 feet long. I checked my VT 102 page (http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/vt/vt_102) and sure enough VT 26 is signed.
Here is one thing I have been wondering about Oregon. Do they have county routes or are they like Virginia where every road outside a city is maintained by the state?
Quote from: dvferyance on January 25, 2017, 09:28:38 AM
Here is one thing I have been wondering about Oregon. Do they have county routes or are they like Virginia where every road outside a city is maintained by the state?
I see very few county route signs. Maintenance in Coos County can fall under the aegis of several agencies depending on where the road is. One unusual arrangement is for SR 540, which is state-maintained except for the section in Coos Bay. Why is that? ODOT gave that city around $16 million in exchange for taking over this section back in the 90's. A good portion of the money was put into modernization and beautification projects with the last section getting this treatment done later this year.
Rick
As Nexus says, there are very few signed county routes in Oregon. One of the most notable ones, Delta Highway, in Eugene, is a full on freeway, but is only signed as 'Delta Highway'. According to OSM, it's CR 1740.
Oregon also does not have business routes. OR-99 and US-30 function as such, though. Which frankly, I prefer. Never been a big fan of business routes/spurs.
Quote from: Quillz on January 25, 2017, 07:55:06 PM
Oregon also does not have business routes. OR-99 and US-30 function as such, though. Which frankly, I prefer. Never been a big fan of business routes/spurs.
Actually Oregon DOES have a few Business Routes, notably Oregon 18 Bus. through Willamina and Sheridan and Ore. 99E Bus. through Salem.
There is also a US 97 Bus. in Redmond, Bend and Klamath Falls and I believe a few others I have forgotten as well.
Quote from: Bickendan on January 25, 2017, 04:32:46 PM
As Nexus says, there are very few signed county routes in Oregon. One of the most notable ones, Delta Highway, in Eugene, is a full on freeway, but is only signed as 'Delta Highway'. According to OSM, it's CR 1740.
There's one county in particular where all of the segments of OR 99 are on county highways, and those are certainly signed.
Quote from: Alps on January 26, 2017, 12:04:01 AM
Quote from: Bickendan on January 25, 2017, 04:32:46 PM
As Nexus says, there are very few signed county routes in Oregon. One of the most notable ones, Delta Highway, in Eugene, is a full on freeway, but is only signed as 'Delta Highway'. According to OSM, it's CR 1740.
There's one county in particular where all of the segments of OR 99 are on county highways, and those are certainly signed.
I think that's in Douglas County, and I haven't been down south in such a long time to scout it out. Do you mean the county routes are signed, or that OR 99 is signed on county alignments?
Quote from: Bickendan on January 26, 2017, 03:48:20 PM
Quote from: Alps on January 26, 2017, 12:04:01 AM
Quote from: Bickendan on January 25, 2017, 04:32:46 PM
As Nexus says, there are very few signed county routes in Oregon. One of the most notable ones, Delta Highway, in Eugene, is a full on freeway, but is only signed as 'Delta Highway'. According to OSM, it's CR 1740.
There's one county in particular where all of the segments of OR 99 are on county highways, and those are certainly signed.
I think that's in Douglas County, and I haven't been down south in such a long time to scout it out. Do you mean the county routes are signed, or that OR 99 is signed on county alignments?
I think there are county shields there. I don't have my photos up, so I can't prove it, but I remember having to alter which county routes I thought I was on, so something had to have been signed.
http://www.google.com/maps/@43.3683425,-123.327454,3a,21.5y,231.67h,88.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAQ0CASTcCJNbvAP0TJgHyw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
http://www.co.douglas.or.us/survmaps/Roads/Co-St_No_XRef/County-State_NumberCrossRef.pdf
http://www.google.com/maps/@42.9275981,-122.9519506,3a,17.9y,197.01h,86.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd6A7RkAZuWbGaasTlzScRg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
http://www.google.com/maps/@42.9277791,-122.9523149,3a,17.1y,326.91h,89.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syJNrKdy6PwYU_MvIZTIexA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Quote from: Bickendan on January 25, 2017, 04:32:46 PM
As Nexus says, there are very few signed county routes in Oregon. One of the most notable ones, Delta Highway, in Eugene, is a full on freeway, but is only signed as 'Delta Highway'. According to OSM, it's CR 1740.
Unsurprisingly, it depends on where you are. I've noticed that the more southerly and easterly counties sign their county routes more often than in the Willamette Valley. Still, there are some visible county numbering systems out there. Aside from the aforementioned Douglas County, here are the ones I'm aware of:
Clackamas CountyUses standard mileposts on county highways, but they add a small five-digit number on the bottom, like this one on SW Mountain Rd. near Stafford:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oroads.com%2Faaroads%2Fco-rt-clack-1.jpg&hash=c1a48478b1f10c27540e6ea72f75f8ed84dd3bf7) (http://www.oroads.com/aaroads/co-rt-clack-1_orig.jpg)
(taken Sep 2 2013 by me)They also mark their culverts with those same five-digit numbers and a hundredth-milepoint, like this one on SW Homesteader Rd., also near Stafford:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oroads.com%2Faaroads%2Fco-rt-clack-2.jpg&hash=b852fe9557f09c01ca51f518e77fbe0e359c9238) (http://www.oroads.com/aaroads/co-rt-clack-2_orig.jpg)
(taken Sep 2 2013 by me)Washington CountyVery rarely marks their mileposts or highway numbers, but they're out there. Here's milepost 2 on SW Bull Mountain Rd. at the corner of SW 150th Ave. in Tigard:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oroads.com%2Faaroads%2Fco-rt-wash.jpg&hash=0fed0bcc2c1167284c978148bb637a30c6e8f8a7) (http://www.oroads.com/aaroads/co-rt-wash_orig.jpg)
(taken Feb 11 2015 by me)There also used to be one on SW 185th near Farmington Rd (https://goo.gl/maps/jDPtt5fMaiF2), but it appears to have been removed (https://goo.gl/maps/EPU1xi2vx4m) since then. There's also a milepost 3 on River Rd. (https://goo.gl/maps/QWCEsDLJGnp) just south of Rosedale Rd. near Hillsboro.
Linn CountyTheir county road numbers are placed upon their bridge inventory posts, along with the milepoint. Here's one from Hoefer Rd., near I-5's long-closed Exit 240:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oroads.com%2Faaroads%2Fco-rt-linn.jpg&hash=84522b40ab52e67453958baf02cb777826d08c88) (http://www.oroads.com/aaroads/co-rt-linn_orig.jpg)
(taken Aug 13 2016 by me)Lake CountyUses the standard county route symbol, but has hyphenated routes, such as CR 2-17 here:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floodgap.com%2Froadgap%2F395%2Fu18%2Fassets%2F02435.JPG&hash=15fd2bde5b829458465803e03e34c90ea1e19f70) (http://www.floodgap.com/roadgap/395/u18/assets/02435.JPG)
(taken in 2005 by Cameron Kaiser (http://www.floodgap.com/roadgap/395/))Harney CountyUses the standard county route symbol, but with a lot of letter suffixes. Their sign department apparently uses spray paint to name/number its signs:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floodgap.com%2Froadgap%2F395%2Fu19%2Fassets%2F02725.JPG&hash=188165b9882a15e39f41645cbfbb5036e8d66575) (http://www.floodgap.com/roadgap/395/u19/assets/02725.JPG)
(taken in 2005 by Cameron Kaiser (http://www.floodgap.com/roadgap/395/))Grant CountyUses the standard county route symbol. Pretty boring, actually:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floodgap.com%2Froadgap%2F395%2Fu20%2Fassets%2F02880.JPG&hash=86a3e2823035669fa723a7ecd6ed411f95c53785) (http://www.floodgap.com/roadgap/395/u20/assets/02880.JPG)
(taken in 2005 by Cameron Kaiser (http://www.floodgap.com/roadgap/395/))--------
I also remember from my childhood that Coos County (http://www.co.coos.or.us/Portals/0/Road%20Department/COUNTY%20MAINTAINED%20ROADS.pdf?ver=2016-01-19-103952-293) mileposts have a numbered CR reassurance shield above the mileage. This was past the end the Coos River Highway on the way to Golden and Silver State Park (E Fork Rd, Coos County #49). IIRC the mileage appeared to be based off the state highway mileposts.
Multnomah (https://multco.us/file/33797/download), Marion (http://apps.co.marion.or.us/ADT/default.aspx) and Lincoln (http://www.co.lincoln.or.us/sites/default/files/fileattachments/public_works/page/747/co_roads_map.pdf) Counties do number their roads, but not in the public as far as I've seen. I am unsure if Crook (http://www.co.crook.or.us/Portals/0/Road%20List%201-11.pdf), Josephine (http://www.co.josephine.or.us/Files/County%20Road%20List%202014.pdf), Polk (http://www.co.polk.or.us/sites/default/files/fileattachments/public_works/page/2611/harn.pdf), and Tillamook (http://www.co.tillamook.or.us/gov/pw/Documents/LAR's.pdf) Counties sign their numbered roads. I don't even know if the other counties not mentioned number their roads at all -- if so, the lists aren't publicly accessible.