The County Engineer (Secondary Roads Department) is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the Secondary Road System in Jackson County. Jackson County’s road system has 841 miles of roadway.
This includes 188 miles of paved roads; 609 miles of gravel roads, 6 miles of seal-coated roads, and 38 miles of dirt roads. The system also includes 225 bridges and large culverts.
Surface repairs and maintenance – this would include rocking the County’s gravel roads, patching paved roads, pothole repairs, shoulder rocking, mowing shoulders and brush cutting, county bridge and culvert repairs, ditch cleaning in order to allow proper drainage, snow removal on county roads, roadway sign installation and maintenance (911 signs are installed by the Engineer's Office and paid for by the 911 office).
