The Harrison County Highway Department is responsible for maintaining Harrison
County’s roadway system. This includes everything from patching potholes and
mowing the right-of-ways to replacing culverts and bridges and paving roads. We clear
snow from the roads after winter storms and trees from the roads after summer storms.
The Highway Department is responsible for approximately 812 miles of county roads, 75
bridges, over 300 small structures (culverts with a span greater than 4-ft but less than 20-
ft), and many more smaller roadway culverts. The Highway Department’s annual
budget for 2008 is approximately $3.4 million and is comprised of approximately
$540,000.00 funded from the Local Road and Street (LRS) account, $2.6 million funded
from the Motor Vehicle Highway (MVH) account, and approximately $248,000.00 funded
from the Cumulative Bridge account. Both the MVH and LRS accounts are funded
through taxes paid on diesel and gasoline. The cumulative bridge account is funded
through an assessment on property taxes. In addition to these funds, the Highway
Department typically manages approximately $5 million each year in riverboat funds.
The riverboat funding is spent primarily to pave roads and to complete work needed to
prepare the roads to be paved. Riverboat funding is also typically used to purchase
new equipment.
The Highway Department is located in two separate offices, the County Engineer’s
Office and the Harrison County Highway Department Garage.
The Harrison County Engineer’s Office is located on the first floor in Room 107 of the
Harrison County Courthouse. Our hours are 7:30 am to 4:00 pm Monday through
Friday. The County Engineer’s Office provides design and construction administration
of road and bridge projects throughout Harrison County. The County Engineer’s Office
also oversees design and construction of all subdivisions located within Harrison
County’s unincorporated areas. The duties of the County Engineer as described in
Indiana Code are as follows:
The county highway engineer shall, subject to the policies of the county executive,
perform the following functions:
(1) Prepare and publish a county-wide inventory and classification of the county
highway system so that the total county federal aid secondary system is included in the
county primary or arterial system of roads.
(2) Prepare and keep a perpetual inventory of all bridges and culverts serving the
county highway system. The inventory must show the location, dimensions, condition,
and the year of construction for all bridges and major culverts.
(3) Prepare and publish standards of design, construction, and maintenance of the
county arterial, feeder, and local roads that make the best and most economical use of
local road materials.
(4) Prepare a long-range county-wide program of road and bridge construction and
improvements, with the proposed projects arranged in order of priority. The program of
proposed projects must cover a period of at least four (4) years.
(5) Investigate requests and petitions for road or bridge improvements that are received
either by the county executive or at public hearings, and make recommendations to
the county executive.
(6) Prepare surveys, designs, plans, and specifications for all county road and bridge
construction projects, prepare contracts, and advertise for bids.
(7) Make construction and materials inspection of all county road and bridge
construction projects, inform the executive of the status of construction work, and
certify completed construction projects.
(8) Develop a county-wide program of traffic safety that provides for traffic control signs,
signals, and speed limits, warning protection at railroad crossings, load limits, and
detour routings.
(9) Inspect and approve the construction of subdivision streets that are to be taken into
the county highway system, and recommend appropriate action to the executive when
roads and streets in subdivisions are being taken into the county highway system.
(10) Prepare engineering estimates and make recommendations to the executive
concerning the materials and equipment needed in the annual budgeting of both
construction and maintenance funds.
The Harrison County Highway Department is located at 3185 Harrison Way in the
Industrial Park north of Corydon. Our hours are 7:30 am to 4:00 pm. The Highway
Department performs regular maintenance on all county roads. To report a hazard or
request work to be done on a county road, please call us at 738-2920 during normal
hours. In case of emergency after normal hours, contact the Harrison County Sheriff’s
Department at 738-2195.
County’s roadway system. This includes everything from patching potholes and
mowing the right-of-ways to replacing culverts and bridges and paving roads. We clear
snow from the roads after winter storms and trees from the roads after summer storms.
The Highway Department is responsible for approximately 812 miles of county roads, 75
bridges, over 300 small structures (culverts with a span greater than 4-ft but less than 20-
ft), and many more smaller roadway culverts. The Highway Department’s annual
budget for 2008 is approximately $3.4 million and is comprised of approximately
$540,000.00 funded from the Local Road and Street (LRS) account, $2.6 million funded
from the Motor Vehicle Highway (MVH) account, and approximately $248,000.00 funded
from the Cumulative Bridge account. Both the MVH and LRS accounts are funded
through taxes paid on diesel and gasoline. The cumulative bridge account is funded
through an assessment on property taxes. In addition to these funds, the Highway
Department typically manages approximately $5 million each year in riverboat funds.
The riverboat funding is spent primarily to pave roads and to complete work needed to
prepare the roads to be paved. Riverboat funding is also typically used to purchase
new equipment.
The Highway Department is located in two separate offices, the County Engineer’s
Office and the Harrison County Highway Department Garage.
The Harrison County Engineer’s Office is located on the first floor in Room 107 of the
Harrison County Courthouse. Our hours are 7:30 am to 4:00 pm Monday through
Friday. The County Engineer’s Office provides design and construction administration
of road and bridge projects throughout Harrison County. The County Engineer’s Office
also oversees design and construction of all subdivisions located within Harrison
County’s unincorporated areas. The duties of the County Engineer as described in
Indiana Code are as follows:
The county highway engineer shall, subject to the policies of the county executive,
perform the following functions:
(1) Prepare and publish a county-wide inventory and classification of the county
highway system so that the total county federal aid secondary system is included in the
county primary or arterial system of roads.
(2) Prepare and keep a perpetual inventory of all bridges and culverts serving the
county highway system. The inventory must show the location, dimensions, condition,
and the year of construction for all bridges and major culverts.
(3) Prepare and publish standards of design, construction, and maintenance of the
county arterial, feeder, and local roads that make the best and most economical use of
local road materials.
(4) Prepare a long-range county-wide program of road and bridge construction and
improvements, with the proposed projects arranged in order of priority. The program of
proposed projects must cover a period of at least four (4) years.
(5) Investigate requests and petitions for road or bridge improvements that are received
either by the county executive or at public hearings, and make recommendations to
the county executive.
(6) Prepare surveys, designs, plans, and specifications for all county road and bridge
construction projects, prepare contracts, and advertise for bids.
(7) Make construction and materials inspection of all county road and bridge
construction projects, inform the executive of the status of construction work, and
certify completed construction projects.
(8) Develop a county-wide program of traffic safety that provides for traffic control signs,
signals, and speed limits, warning protection at railroad crossings, load limits, and
detour routings.
(9) Inspect and approve the construction of subdivision streets that are to be taken into
the county highway system, and recommend appropriate action to the executive when
roads and streets in subdivisions are being taken into the county highway system.
(10) Prepare engineering estimates and make recommendations to the executive
concerning the materials and equipment needed in the annual budgeting of both
construction and maintenance funds.
The Harrison County Highway Department is located at 3185 Harrison Way in the
Industrial Park north of Corydon. Our hours are 7:30 am to 4:00 pm. The Highway
Department performs regular maintenance on all county roads. To report a hazard or
request work to be done on a county road, please call us at 738-2920 during normal
hours. In case of emergency after normal hours, contact the Harrison County Sheriff’s
Department at 738-2195.
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