Land Surveying in Taylorsville, GA

Land Surveying Services in Taylorsville, Georgia

Taylorsville is a town of 252 people, up from 210 in 2010, on 1.5 square miles of land in the southwestern corner of Bartow County. It is also partly in Polk County. The Census Bureau places the town in both, the Georgia Municipal Association lists its county as Bartow and Polk, and the portion that reaches west across the line is large enough that some Taylorsville students attend Polk County schools rather than Bartow County schools. For anyone hiring a land surveyor in Taylorsville, GA, that split is the first thing to settle, because a deed and a plat are recorded in the county where the land physically lies, not the county printed on the mailing address.

Two Clerks, Two Plat Indexes

Land on the Bartow side records with the Bartow County Clerk of Superior Court at 135 West Cherokee Avenue, Suite 233, in Cartersville, about thirteen miles east of Taylorsville on State Route 113. Land on the Polk side records with the Polk County Clerk of Superior Court at Courthouse No. 1, 100 Prior Street, Suite 106, in Cedartown, roughly twenty miles the other direction, out State Route 113 through Rockmart and then US 278. Two courthouses, two plat indexes, and a search run in the wrong one comes back clean for the wrong reason. Bart Sims establishes which county a parcel lies in from the land itself before anything is drafted for filing.

Looking Up a Taylorsville Parcel

Assessment data is published county by county: the Bartow County Board of Assessors at qpublic.net/ga/bartow/ and the Polk County Board of Tax Assessors at qpublic.net/ga/polk/. Bartow County's zoning office names Taylorsville specifically when it warns people off a common shortcut. Parcel numbers that begin with a zero are usually unincorporated county, it says, with the exception of some parcels in Taylorsville and Euharlee, so the tax district field is the one to read. Taylorsville is one of only two municipalities in the county where the parcel number alone will mislead you.

Who Approves a Split Here

The Town of Taylorsville has a mayor and council that meets the first Monday of the month and keeps post office box 20 at Taylorsville 30178. Outside the town limits the approving body depends on which county the tract sits in. In unincorporated Bartow, no lot may be split and no plat recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court without the county signature block certifying the plat meets the Bartow County Zoning Ordinance and Development Regulations, and a division into three or more lots counts as a subdivision. In unincorporated Polk, preliminary plats go to the Polk County Planning and Zoning Department, whose director keeps an office at 5 Warehouse Street in Cedartown, and final plats are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of Polk County. Same road, same soil, two rule books.

The Town Was Laid Out by a Surveyor

Taylorsville owes its name to a surveyor. Edward G. Taylor surveyed the town around 1870 and it was named for him; the Georgia General Assembly incorporated Taylorsville as a town in 1916. State Route 113 is still the main road, running west toward Rockmart and Cedartown and east toward Cartersville and Interstate 75. The work here follows the rural pattern: boundary retracement before family land is divided, corner marking where a fence is going in, and topographic mapping before a house or a barn is sited. For the county-wide record on either side of the line, see our Bartow County land surveying page and our Polk County land surveying page.