Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Catoosa County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe.
Catoosa County sits in the northwest corner of Georgia, with Ringgold as its county seat. The whole of the county sits in the Ridge and Valley province, its ridges and valleys running in long parallel bands. Taylor Ridge and White Oak Mountain top 1,300 feet along its eastern edge, and Catoosa is unusual among its neighbors in that all of its water drains to the Tennessee River rather than the Coosa. Relief like that is what gives a topographic survey and a site plan their weight here, and why the contours are worth pinning down before a design is settled rather than once it is drawn.
S&S Land Surveying LLC works from 549 West Ave in Cedartown, in Polk County, and takes work throughout Catoosa County. The firm was founded at the end of 2021 by William "Bart" Sims, who has more than 40 years of surveying experience, and the work is performed by a licensed Georgia surveyor. We hold a 4.9 star rating across 50+ Google reviews. Ringgold is the county seat, and we cover the unincorporated county and the communities around Fort Oglethorpe and Tunnel Hill as well.
Georgia is a metes and bounds state, not a public land survey state. Because the land here was granted by the State of Georgia rather than by the federal government, the township and range grid of the rectangular survey system was never laid over Catoosa County, and no such grid underlies a deed here. What the State used instead was the land district and the land lot, and those numbers still anchor the legal descriptions on deeds and plats being recorded now. A retracement of an older line normally starts by working back through them.
Under O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1, deeds go on record with the Clerk of Superior Court for the county in which the land lies. Because the controlling factor is where the property is and not where the owner happens to reside, a parcel in Catoosa County is recorded in Catoosa County even if its owner lives elsewhere.
The Georgia Plat Act, O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, governs plats. The clerk records a plat once it satisfies the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and is drawn on a sheet within the limits of 8.5 by 11 inches at the smallest and 24 by 36 inches at the largest. Under the same Act no subdivision plat may be recorded without the approval of the planning commission or the governing authority, which means a land division clears local review first and only then reaches the clerk. Current parcel and assessment data for the county is published through the Catoosa County parcel and assessment portal.
Catoosa County sits wholly inside the Ridge and Valley province. Taylor Ridge and White Oak Mountain climb past 1,300 feet along the eastern side of the county, and at Ringgold the barrier is broken by Ringgold Gap, the notch that first carried the railroad and now the highway through the ridge. One thing sets Catoosa apart from the counties around it: every stream in it runs north to the Tennessee River rather than south to the Coosa, so the whole county lies on the Tennessee side of the divide. The valleys between the ridges are floored with shale and limestone, and that limestone puts Catoosa squarely in cave country. In Georgia EPD's inventory of caves, Catoosa falls within the northwest cluster of counties that hold the bulk of the state's known caves.
Because the valley limestone is tight Paleozoic rock, rainwater works down through its cracks and seams instead of the whole mass, and across geologic time it hollows out the openings that show up as sinkholes, hollow ground and caves. What is there underground is rarely readable from the surface.
That geology is not academic for anyone building on it. Where the rock has dissolved below, the safe footprint for a structure can shift, a foundation may need engineering it would not otherwise, drainage has to allow for it, and a lender or engineer will want it on paper before the job starts. Our work is the surface and the lines: a topographic survey shows how the ground lies and a boundary survey sets where the parcel edges run. Testing what the rock is doing below grade falls to a geotechnical engineer, and we will tell you when a site has reached that point.
Retracing deed and plat calls to locate and mark the lines and corners of a parcel.
Learn More →Title and lender grade surveys prepared to the ALTA/NSPS standards for commercial transactions.
Learn More →Elevation and contour mapping for design work, drainage review and permitting.
Learn More →Existing conditions and proposed improvements drawn for city and county permit submittals.
Learn More →Dividing a tract into new parcels, prepared for the local approval a plat filing requires.
Learn More →Setting building corners, offsets and control so the work gets built where the plan puts it.
Learn More →Select a city for local surveying information. We also cover the unincorporated parts of the county, including the communities around Fort Oglethorpe. Fort Oglethorpe straddles into Walker County and Tunnel Hill straddles into Whitfield County, so which office records a deed or plat there depends on where the parcel actually lies.
Catoosa County borders Walker and Whitfield counties in Georgia, and meets Hamilton County across the Tennessee state line. The neighbors we cover with their own pages are below.
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