County highway

[a] Depending on the state or province and county, these roads can be named after geographic features, communities, or people.

Many locales have somewhat arbitrarily assigned numbers for all county roads, but with no number-signage at all or only on standard street name blades.

County roads and highways vary greatly in design standards, funding, and regularity of maintenance.

In remote areas, county roads may be sand, gravel, or graded earth, only occasionally seeing foot, equestrian, and four wheel drive traffic.

County highway markers are usually a yellow-on-blue pentagon (the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices standard pattern) or a black-on-white square (largely older signs).

In West Virginia, the state maintains secondary roads though they may be designated as county routes.

In Wisconsin, county highways are marked with letters—with one- to three-letter combinations (i.e.: C, CC, or CCC).

County roads running primarily east and west are assigned letters (from north to south) A through J.

County roads running primarily north and south are assigned letters (from west to east) K through Z.

Ontario county or regional roads are marked with trapezoid-shaped signs, usually (but not necessarily) with a white, black, green, or blue background, and normally identifying the county or region responsible for the road's maintenance, sometimes with the jurisdiction's coat of arms or corporate logo.

The county road network has been present for many years, but has only been signed with the flowerpot logos since the 1970s and early 1980s (depending on the area).

In the unincorporated districts of Northern Ontario, as there is no county level of government the province maintains a secondary highway system to serve the same function.

of the Local Government Act 1929, was the term used to refer to any road for which a county council was the responsible highway authority.