Boundary retracement, parcel splits, easement and topographic surveys on the timber ground between Cedartown and the Alabama line. Licensed in Georgia.
Esom Hill is close enough to Alabama that the state line is a working question rather than trivia. The community's mapped center sits about half a mile east of the Polk County boundary, and along that stretch the county boundary is the Georgia and Alabama line. Cleburne County, Alabama lies directly west across the line. S&S is licensed in Georgia only, so a tract out here gets checked for which side of that line it falls on before anything else happens.
No city government reaches this far. Esom Hill is an unincorporated community, neither an incorporated place nor a census designated place, which puts every land division under the Polk County Development Regulations and in front of the Polk County Planning and Zoning Department at 5 Warehouse Street in Cedartown. Four or fewer lots is a minor subdivision. Five or more is a major one, and a major subdivision needs administrative review by the planning director plus approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Polk County Board of Commissioners before it can be recorded. Even carving a tract into pieces of ten acres or more, each fronting a county maintained road, still requires a final plat submitted for approval.
Approval shows up on the drawing itself. Polk County's certificate of final plat approval carries the signature of the planning director or a designee and approves the plat for recordation by the Clerk of Superior Court. That office is Courthouse No. 1, 100 Prior Street, Suite 106, in Cedartown, about nine miles east. US 278 begins at the Alabama line near Esom Hill and runs on through Cedartown, so it is one road in. Parcel and assessment data are kept apart from the deed room and are published by the Polk County Board of Assessors at qpublic.net/ga/polk/.
Sewer decides how lots get laid out here. Public sanitary sewer is not available anywhere in unincorporated Polk County, so every lot is a septic lot. The Health Department certification on the plat has to state in writing that any lot not on public sewer needs a septic tank permit before construction starts, and on a major subdivision the Health Department stamps the plat before Planning and Zoning reviews it. Frontage is fixed by the same regulations: no less than thirty continuous feet along the right of way for a parcel of ten acres or less, and sixty continuous feet for anything larger, measured uniformly back to the building setback line. Erosion and sediment control plans go to the Coosa River Soil and Water Conservation District for review.
Terrain out here is Polk County's western hill country, rolling and wooded, with the community sitting near 918 feet above sea level by USGS 3DEP data. Esom Slough and Little Terrapin Creek drain the ground here, and the community sits in what the USGS watershed boundary dataset calls the Pumpkin Pile Creek-McCurry Creek subwatershed. Snows Lake is close by, on the Alabama side of the line. State Route 74 comes in nearby, and US 278 carries State Route 6 with it from the state line east. Holdings run to timber tracts and long held family acreage rather than platted subdivisions, so a retracement here leans on the record chain and on evidence found in the woods instead of on subdivision monuments in a graded yard.
One more line crosses this ground and it is not a road. The Silver Comet Trail runs west through Polk County on an old railroad roadbed and reaches its Esom Hill trailhead a short distance short of the state line, where the route continues into Alabama as the Chief Ladiga Trail. The corridor is railbanked rather than extinguished, and deeds along it still call to a railroad right of way, which makes it a boundary question.
Chains of title in this corner of the county run long, back through generations of family ownership rather than through a developer's plat, which is why the record work usually takes as long as the field work. S&S Land Surveying works out of 549 West Ave in Cedartown, about nine miles east. Every survey is performed under William "Bart" Sims, the licensed Georgia land surveyor who signs and seals the plat.
Retracement on timber tracts and family acreage where the governing plat can be older than the county regulations.
Learn More →Four or fewer lots is a minor subdivision in unincorporated Polk County. The final plat still has to be approved.
Learn More →Marking lines through wooded ground so a fence, a gate or a timber cut stops where the deed says it should.
Learn More →Access and utility easements, including deeds that call to the railbanked trail right of way.
Learn More →Contour and drainage mapping on the hill ground between the state line and Cedartown.
Learn More →Locating finished construction on the ground and showing it against the recorded lot lines and setbacks.
Learn More →Everything west of Cedartown records in Polk County, but the desk that signs the plat changes the moment a tract sits inside a city limit. Click through for what applies where.
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