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1930–present
State Road 23 is the town's Main Street, and no U.S. highway touches North Liberty — a claim tested and found negative. SR 23 runs from SR 10 in Starke County north through Grovertown and Walkerton, then northeast through North Liberty — where it junctions with SR 4, at SR 4's mile 24.442 — and on to the Michigan line. The number's history at frame strength: before 1926 the SR 23 number sat elsewhere in the state; the 1926 renumbering left it unused; in late 1930 it was applied to the modern routing, the National Register nomination corroborating at town level that the "designation of Main Street as Indiana State Road 23 in 1930… connected South Bend to Walkerton"; the road took a high-type surface in 1939–41 and was extended south to SR 10 in 1950 or 1951. The U.S.-highway test was run against the SR 23 route record and the town plan's own geography: SR 23 meets U.S. routes only at Grovertown (US 30), Walkerton (US 6), and in the South Bend area (US 20 and US 31) — none of them in North Liberty, and the plan itself describes the town as "a short drive from US 31, US 35, and Interstate 80/90," with SR 23 and SR 4 the roads that run through it. The finding prints as tested: no U.S. highway serves this town. The road course before the state roads — the stage, plank and early state roads into the townsite — was not extracted; Chapman records an unnamed Indian trail through the township, carried in the tribes section, and the named settler for the road course is Howard's second chapter, "Ferries, Roads and Bridges." The highways leg digs it there.