Professional boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans & more in Carroll County. Licensed Georgia surveyor.
S&S Land Surveying serves all of Carroll County, from Carrollton and Villa Rica down through Bowdon, Mount Zion, Roopville and Whitesburg. We work out of 549 West Ave in Cedartown, and every survey is performed under a licensed Georgia surveyor. William "Bart" Sims founded the firm at the end of 2021 after more than 40 years of surveying experience, and the company holds 4.9 stars from 50+ Google reviews.
Carroll County covers 499.1 square miles of the Piedmont and recorded a population of 119,148 in the 2020 Census, so it carries both a lot of ground and a lot of parcels. Carrollton is the county seat. The county is served by I-20, US 27 and US 78, and the mix of work reflects that: residential and commercial development along the corridors, and older agricultural acreage further out that has not been retraced in a long time.
The water tells a more useful story for surveyors. The Little Tallapoosa rises in north Carroll, while the Chattahoochee flows through the southeast near Whitesburg. The county is split between two river basins, the Tallapoosa in the ACT system and the Chattahoochee in the ACF system, and Villa Rica sits up on the dividing ridgeline between them. Anything touching a stream buffer, a floodplain or a drainage design in this county benefits from knowing which side of that ridge a tract falls on.
Georgia is a metes and bounds state, not a Public Land Survey System state. Land here was granted by the State of Georgia rather than the federal government, distributed through eight land lotteries between 1805 and 1833, so the rectangular township and range grid used across much of the country never applied. Georgia used the land lot and district system instead, and those numbers still appear in legal descriptions today. Pulling an original grant takes the land lot number and the district number.
Carroll County came out of the 1827 lottery that followed the Creek cession, and that lottery was laid out at 202.5-acre land lots. Descriptions on this side of the state read as district and land lot, with no section number in the string, which is the practical difference between Carroll and the counties north of here that descend from the 1832 Cherokee lottery and carry 160-acre lots described by section, district and land lot. A Carroll County chain of title that hands you a section number is usually a sign the description was copied from somewhere it does not belong.
Recording follows O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1: a deed is recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land lies. For Carroll County that office is at 311 Newnan St. in Carrollton. Plats fall under O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act, which has the clerk file and record plats, requires those plats to meet the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, sets sheet sizes from a minimum of 8.5 by 11 inches to a maximum of 24 by 36, and provides that a subdivision plat cannot be recorded without approval from the planning commission or the governing authority. That last clause is the one that most often controls the schedule on a split or a new subdivision. Current parcel and assessment records are published at qpublic.net/ga/carroll/.
Three Carroll County cities cross a county line, so a mailing address is not proof of the recording county. Villa Rica straddles Carroll and Douglas. Bremen and Temple straddle Carroll and Haralson. The deed, the plat and the approving authority all follow the land rather than the post office, so we confirm which county a parcel lies in before anything goes to a courthouse.
Retracing deeded lines and setting corners on Carroll County acreage and city lots.
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Learn More →Dividing acreage into new tracts, with plats prepared to Georgia recording standards.
Learn More →Staking building corners and setback lines before construction starts.
Learn More →Eight incorporated cities sit in Carroll County, and three of them cross a county line. Click a city below for local detail.
Carroll County borders Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Haralson, Heard and Paulding in Georgia, plus Cleburne and Randolph counties in Alabama along its western edge.
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