Land Surveying in Carrollton, GA

Land Surveying Services in Carrollton, Georgia

Carrollton is the county seat of Carroll County, which puts both offices a survey depends on inside the city. Deeds and plats for Carroll County land are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court at 311 Newnan Street. Carroll County Community Development, the department responsible for the regulation, review and inspection of land development and building construction, sits at 423 College Street. If you are looking for a land surveyor in Carrollton, GA, that concentration is worth something: the record research and the filing happen in the same town as the parcel.

Carroll County publishes current parcel and assessment records at qpublic.net/ga/carroll/, covering more than 56,000 parcels countywide. That portal is a starting point and not a boundary. Assessor mapping is built for taxation and is compiled from deed descriptions, recorded plats and aerial imagery, so the lines it draws approximate the record rather than establish it. A boundary survey retraces the deeded description on the ground and recovers or sets the corners, which is what a closing attorney, a lender or a disagreement with an adjoiner actually turns on.

Work inside the city reads differently from work outside it. In-town parcels are platted lots and older blocks, where the live question is usually where a fence, a drive or an addition sits relative to a recorded line and what the setbacks allow. Past the city limit the tracts get larger and the descriptions get older, and acreage that has not been retraced in a long time may not close cleanly against what the adjoiners hold. City limits in Georgia move by annexation, so the boundary does not necessarily follow a road or the edge of a subdivision. A parcel inside the limits answers to the City of Carrollton for zoning and land development review, and a parcel outside them answers to Carroll County, so we establish which authority controls a tract before a plat goes anywhere for approval.

The Little Tallapoosa River runs through the western side of Carrollton, and parcels along it bring floodplain elevations and stream buffers into the same job as the boundary. Carrollton sits near the center of the county at the crossing of US 27 with State Routes 16, 113 and 166, with I-20 nine miles north at Bremen. Carroll County is one of the 29 counties in the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area, and the University of West Georgia and West Georgia Technical College both sit here, so residential and commercial development runs alongside the older agricultural ground further out. S&S Land Surveying works out of 549 West Ave in Cedartown, in Polk County north of here, and every survey is performed under William "Bart" Sims, the licensed Georgia land surveyor who signs and seals the plat. S&S is licensed in Georgia only.