Summit County Engineer's Office

Zoning information is provided to residents from their respective township, city or village Zoning Department. Here is a list of available municipality websites for Summit County.

According to the Ohio Revised Code, a County Engineer in the State of Ohio must have professional certificates as both a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) and a Registered Professional Surveyor (P.S.):

§ 315.02 Text of Statute No person holding the office of clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff, county treasurer, or county recorder is eligible to hold the office of county engineer. No person is eligible in any county as a candidate for such office or shall be elected or appointed thereto unless he is a registered professional engineer and a registered surveyor, licensed to practice in this state.

View the qualifications needed to become a Professional Engineer and to become a Professional Surveyor (Chapter 4733.11 - Qualifications) .

A portion of all property lines run along the centerline or the right-of-way of a road. Property corners bordering a road are usually marked with survey monuments, sometimes referred to as "pins", set at the intersection of the property lines and the road right-of-way even though a property line may extend to the centerline of the road. Since survey monuments that define the center of a road are sometimes lost or destroyed, the next best evidence of the road boundary may be the alignment of property corners along the road right-of-way. Most modern road rights-of-way are 50 or 60 feet in total width, so that would generally place the right-of-way within front yard area. Although survey monuments are generally set flush with the surface, they tend to be covered with dirt over time. When this happens, a metal detector is used to locate the monument for recovery. Then the area is carefully excavated to expose the "pin". After measurements are taken the hole is filled and the area is carefully restored to its original condition.

Recovering and measuring to survey monuments located at other property corners away from the road is also necessary to determine property lines that relate to public improvement projects that extend beyond the road right-of-way. Examples of these projects may be improvements of drainage courses or government properties.

The County Engineer's office generally only provides survey services for County and township improvement projects. There are a number of private Professional Surveyors, registered in the State of Ohio, who provide surveying services for private properties. Locally these land surveyors can be found in the telephone book yellow pages under "SURVEYORS-LAND".

Yes, but only if the animal is in the right-of-way on a County road or highway. You can call the Summit County Engineer station in your area, or you can call the Public Services Department at 330-643-2860 for removal information. If it is on a city street (e.g. City of Akron) please call their Street or Road Maintenance Department.

A large amount of surveying is performed by private surveyors to establish property lines for land sale or development. Signs of surveying are thin wooden stakes about 3 feet tall with pink ribbon or flagging and/or pink painted numbers or letters on road pavement.

The Summit County Engineer (SCE) provides survey services for County and township improvement projects. These survey services are performed by a consultant and/or the SCE Survey Section. SCE surveyors work out of white vehicles with green stripes and SCE logos on the side and a yellow safety light on the roof. Employees carry SCE identification cards with them. Most of SCE survey work is performed within the road right-of-way to determine the centerline. The centerline of right-of-way is of great importance to SCE projects.
 

You can get a copy of the Summit County map from the Engineer's office by calling (330) 643-2850 or by completing the map order form ("General -- Request a Map").

You can view an on-line version of the Summit County map below. Also available to view is a topographic map of Summit County. Use the arrows on the bottom of each page to zoom in on your area of interest.

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The Summit County Engineer's Office reponsibilities.

Street Address:

Summit County Engineer
538 East South Street
Akron, OH 44311-1843

and you can reach us at 330) 643-2850/FX: (330) 762-7829

FROM THE NORTH
FOLLOW THE SIGNS FOR I-77 SOUTH INTO AKRON; THE EXIT TO TAKE IS WOLF LEDGES. TURN RIGHT ONTO WOLF LEDGES; THE NEXT INTERSECTION IS E. SOUTH STREET AND WOLF LEDGES, TURN LEFT ONTO E. SOUTH STREET,OUR BUILDING IS AT THE END OF THE STREET ON THE RIGHT.

FROM THE SOUTH
FOLLOW I-77 /I-76 GOING NORTH; TAKE THE GRANT/WOLF LEDGES EXIT AND TURN LEFT GOING OVER THE EXPRESSWAY; THE NEXT INTERSECTION IS E. SOUTH STREET, TURN LEFT AND FOLLOW IT TO THE END OF THE STREET, OUR BUILDING IS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.

FROM THE NORTH TAKING ROUTE 8
FOLLOW ROUTE 8 SOUTH; EXIT AT EXCHANGE STREET, AT THE LIGHT TURN RIGHT ONTO EXCHANGE STREET; THE NEXT LIGHT IS AT SPICER STREET; TURN LEFT ONTO SPICER IT DEAD ENDS INTO OUR PARKING LOT.

FROM THE EAST
FOLLOW I-76 WEST INTO AKRON, TAKE THE EXIT GRANT STREET/WOLF LEDGES AND TURN LEFT GOING OVER THE EXPRESSWAY; THE LIGHT IS AT EAST SOUTH STREET, TURN LEFT AND IT DEAD ENDS INTO OUR BUILDING.

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