Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Bartow County. Licensed Georgia surveyor.
Bartow County sits on a geologic seam. The Cartersville Fault runs through it, and the county is a meeting point of four of Georgia's provinces: the Blue Ridge, the Talladega belt, the Piedmont and the Ridge and Valley. That convergence is the reason for the county's long history of mineral wealth, and it is also why ground conditions can change character over a short distance here in a way they do not in a county that sits squarely inside one province.
The relief follows from that. Ground in the county runs from about 593 feet where the Etowah River leaves for Floyd up to roughly 2,057 feet in the northern highlands, close to 1,464 feet of fall inside one county line. Red Top Mountain and the Etowah corridor shape the eastern half. Lake Allatoona, a US Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Etowah, touches only three counties, Bartow, Cherokee and Cobb.
Across 458.9 square miles of land area, excluding water surface, Bartow holds seven incorporated cities: Adairsville, Cartersville, Emerson, Euharlee, Kingston, Taylorsville and White. Taylorsville lies across the Bartow and Polk line. S&S Land Surveying works the whole county from Cedartown, in the cities and in the unincorporated ground between them.
Land in Georgia was granted by the State, not the federal government, and distributed through eight lotteries held between 1805 and 1833. The federal rectangular survey never applied, so descriptions here are metes and bounds. Bartow came out of the 1832 Cherokee lottery, which laid out 160-acre lots and identified each one by section, district and land lot. Bartow was part of original Cherokee County, which is why the section number matters: without it, a district and land lot pair is not enough to pull the original grant.
Deeds and plats are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land lies, under O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1. In Bartow that office is at 135 W. Cherokee Ave., Ste. 233, in Cartersville, and it holds the record for all seven cities and the unincorporated county alike. A Taylorsville property is the case to watch, since the city crosses into Polk and the recording county follows the land rather than the mailing address.
Plat requirements come from O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. A plat offered for record must meet the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, must be drawn on a sheet no smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches and no larger than 24 by 36, and if it is a subdivision plat it cannot be recorded until the planning commission or governing authority has approved it. Parcel and assessment data for the county is published at qPublic Bartow County.
Bartow is the most geologically complex county S&S works in. The Cartersville Fault runs through it and marks a meeting point of the Blue Ridge, Talladega, Piedmont and Ridge and Valley provinces, which is what gave the county its mineral history. Elevation runs from about 593 feet where the Etowah River leaves for Floyd County up to roughly 2,057 feet in the county's northern highlands, the greatest local relief in the region we cover.
Georgia EPD names Bartow explicitly at the center of the state's cave country: Bartow and the eight counties north and west of it hold 448 of Georgia's 513 known caves. The Paleozoic limestone responsible is hard and dense, so groundwater follows joints and produces caves and solution voids that the surface does not advertise.
Add Lake Allatoona and the picture gets more particular still. The reservoir is operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers on the Etowah River, with roughly 270 miles of shoreline, and lakefront work has to account for the federal boundary as well as the property line. A boundary survey establishes the private line, and a topographic survey documents the fall of the ground between it and the water.
Retracing deeded lines in all seven Bartow cities and the unincorporated county.
Learn More →Surveys to the ALTA/NSPS standard for commercial and industrial property countywide.
Learn More →Contour and elevation work suited to a county that runs from river bottom to ridge top.
Learn More →Dividing tracts into recordable lots, with plats meeting the approval required before filing.
Learn More →Corners, offsets and building lines set in the field for construction.
Learn More →All seven incorporated cities in Bartow County, plus the unincorporated ground between them.
Bartow borders seven counties, including Pickens to the northeast. The six below have service pages of their own.
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