Wake County - how to tell if roads are public or private? (Raleigh: real estate)

[cry884]

Is there a website for Wake County where I can find out if a street has been accepted by a town or DOT for maintenance?

[J_Lurk]

I don't know of an online database, but here is where you can get a phone number to call and ask:

NCDOT Division of Highways: Secondary Roads (http://www.ncdot.org/doh/operations/secondaryroads/faq/ - broken link)

[cry884]

Yeah, but I have to check about 300 roads... they might not be too pleased with that phone call!

[JJoeckel]

the way i check on residential searches is to pull up a plat map for the surrounding property -- the map usually will say if the road is public or private. if not you'll have to call. -- to get the map i would use address at wakegov - [url=http://services.wakegov.com/realestate/]Real Estate Search[/url] ... the BM reference is at the top of the results page and on the deed link in the legal description.....or you can go on GIS too

[pierretong1991]

If the roads are in Raleigh - ArcGIS Web Application

NCDOT has county maps - https://www.ncdot.gov/travel/statemapping/#Wake
And you can use the Secondary Road lookup tool to verify what the road numbers are on the map - https://apps.ncdot.gov/srlookup/

If it's something recent and might not have been updated on the map - you can look under the Division Engineer letters (one is issued every time NCDOT takes over maintenance of a road) - we're in Division 5
https://connect.ncdot.gov/resources/...deletters.aspx

[SFspiderman]

I sure hope cry884 was able to get all 300 roads checked over the past eight years!

[pierretong1991]

Originally Posted by SFspiderman

I sure hope cry884 was able to get all 300 roads checked over the past eight years!

hahaha I didn't even check the original posting date - anyways, free info if anyone wants to undergo a similar exercise for fun