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1830s–1930s · AT THE STRENGTHS REACHED
Each surface the town's roads have worn is documented at a different strength, and the table keeps them separate: the blazed trail and the cut road of the 1830s rest on Howard's system-level account (Ch. II) and on the tribes file's unnamed trail — pointer only. The corduroy road is a county-generic hardship in Howard (deep mud, sandy soil, roads "next to impassable"), not a North Liberty surface, and is printed as such. Plank is excluded from this ground outright: Howard documents plank only on the Michigan Road south of South Bend. Gravel is the town's documented early engineered surface — Howard's Crum's Point road is expressly "one of the main gravel roads," and the township-trustee graveling rule (Ch. II) is the mechanism that made such roads. No paving date for SR 23 through town was reached — the 1930 designation is documented, its first pavement is not (gap G-W2R-7 class, with the SR 4 surfacing question) — and the 1963–64 paving of the SR 23 extension north of town (see the SR 23 article) is the one dated paving on this corridor the record carries. The 1875 Andreas atlas's township plate, which would show the road courses as drawn in the town's fifth decade, was not read as a map; it stands already on the image roll as candidate NL-IMG-2, cross-referenced here as the settler for the township road pattern and for the road-name question in the palimpsest article.
Principal sources: Howard (1907), Ch. II and Ch. IX (transcription, read first-hand); the banked image roll (NL-IMG-2).