Land Surveying in Adairsville, GA

Land Surveying Services in Adairsville, Georgia

Adairsville is the northernmost of the seven incorporated cities in Bartow County, set in the Oothcalooga Valley about 16 miles up Interstate 75 from Cartersville, the county seat. S&S Land Surveying covers it from 549 West Ave in Cedartown, roughly 31 miles to the southwest, and Bart Sims is the licensed Georgia land surveyor behind every survey. Anyone looking for a land surveyor in Adairsville, GA is working close to the Gordon County line, and that is the first thing to pin down: the deed, the plat and the approving authority all follow the land rather than the mailing address, so we confirm which county a parcel actually lies in before anything is drafted.

Where Adairsville Plats Get Filed and Approved

Deeds and plats for Adairsville are recorded with the Bartow County Clerk of Superior Court, whose real estate division is at 135 W. Cherokee Ave., Ste. 233, in Cartersville. O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1 puts recording with the clerk of the county where the land lies, and O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act, sets what a recordable plat has to carry. Bartow County adds a step that catches people out. Under the county development regulations, Appendix B of the county code, no plat that subdivides, reconfigures or combines a lot may be recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court without a signature from the appropriate county official, division of land into three or more lots inside unincorporated Bartow is treated as a subdivision, and the process opens with a consultation before the Bartow County Development Review Committee. Inside the Adairsville city limits, review runs instead through the city's own Community Development Department at 116 Public Square, which handles zoning, variances, building permits and historic preservation under the city code. Parcel and assessment data for the county is published on qPublic.

What Survey Work in Adairsville Involves

The city covers 9.4 square miles, all of it land. Interstate 75 runs through the eastern part of Adairsville with access at Exit 306 on State Route 140, and that interchange is where the commercial and industrial parcels sit, the property that calls for an ALTA/NSPS survey at closing or a topographic survey before a site is designed. Downtown is a different problem entirely. Adairsville grew up around the Western and Atlantic Railroad, still in use today, and one of the town's developers, William Watts, surveyed its business lots before incorporation in 1854. In December 1987 Adairsville became the first town in Georgia listed in its entirety on the National Register of Historic Places. Town lots that old and that small get retraced off the recorded record rather than off anything still standing in the field, which makes a boundary survey downtown a records job before it is a field job.

Outside the city the ground opens up. Land in Bartow came out of the 1832 Cherokee lottery in 160-acre lots described by section, district and land lot, and a property survey on acreage north of town starts by pulling all three numbers. Low ground in the Oothcalooga Valley is where a flood or elevation certificate comes into it. We also survey in Kingston, White, Emerson, Euharlee, Taylorsville and across the unincorporated county. For the wider picture, including the Cartersville Fault and the terrain that shapes retracement across the county, see our Bartow County land surveying page.