Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking in Cherokee County. Licensed Georgia surveyor.
If you are weighing whether to call us about a Cherokee County parcel, start with how we are set up. S&S Land Surveying works out of a single office at 549 West Ave in Cedartown, and we travel from Northwest Georgia into Cherokee County for survey work. There is no Cherokee County branch. The reason it still makes sense to call is the grid: Cherokee is the county the 1832 Cherokee lottery is named for, and we read and retrace that sectional grid as routine work rather than as an unfamiliar exception.
S&S Land Surveying LLC was founded at the end of 2021 by William "Bart" Sims, who brings more than 40 years of surveying experience to the work, and the firm holds 4.9 stars from 50+ Google reviews. Our licensed Georgia surveyor covers boundary surveys, ALTA/NSPS land title surveys, topographic surveys, site plans, parcel splits and building staking across the county, from Canton and Woodstock north to Ball Ground and Nelson.
Cherokee covers 421.0 square miles and sits in the Piedmont province, at the province's northern margin. All four of its physiographic districts are Piedmont, which is worth knowing when you are anticipating terrain and rock on a site. The Etowah River is the primary waterway, running through Canton and on into Lake Allatoona, a US Army Corps of Engineers reservoir. Hickory Log Creek Reservoir, about 411 acres, is also at Canton. I-75 clips the northwestern corner of the county.
Georgia is a metes and bounds state, not a Public Land Survey System state. Land here was granted by the State of Georgia rather than the federal government, distributed through eight land lotteries held between 1805 and 1833, so the BLM rectangular survey never applied and there is no township and range to fall back on. Cherokee County is original Cherokee lottery territory from 1832, laid out in 160 acre land lots with 40 acre gold lots. Descriptions here carry a section number as well as a district number and a land lot number, and for original Cherokee County that section number is not optional: pulling an original grant requires all three.
Those land lot and district numbers are still live. They appear in current Cherokee County legal descriptions, and a retracement that ignores the sectional grid tends to produce a boundary that will not reconcile with the neighbor's deed. Two of the county's cities also cross county lines, which changes where a deed belongs: Nelson straddles Cherokee and Pickens, and Mountain Park straddles Cherokee and Fulton. A mailing address is not proof of the recording county.
Under O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1, deeds are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land lies. For Cherokee County that office is at 90 North St., Ste. G-170, Canton, GA 30114. Plats fall under O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act: the clerk files and records plats, plats must meet the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, sheet sizes run from a minimum of 8.5 by 11 inches to a maximum of 24 by 36 inches, and a subdivision plat cannot be recorded until the planning commission or governing authority has approved it. County property records are published at qpublic.net/ga/cherokee.
Cherokee County mixes residential land with commercial development, and on the commercial side the ALTA/NSPS land title survey is usually the item holding up a closing. If a lender or title underwriter has called for one, raise it early: the Table A items are agreed before the crew mobilizes and they set the scope of the field work.
Retracing Cherokee County lines through the section, district and land lot they originate from, and setting recoverable corners.
Learn More →Title survey work for Cherokee commercial transactions, prepared to the ALTA/NSPS standard with the Table A items your underwriter requires.
Learn More →Elevation and feature mapping for design and permitting, including sites falling toward the Etowah River.
Learn More →Plans prepared for submittal to Cherokee County or to a city such as Canton, Woodstock or Holly Springs.
Learn More →Dividing acreage into recordable parcels, including the approval the Plat Act requires before recording.
Learn More →Transferring the approved plan to the ground so foundations, building lines and setbacks are built where the plan places them.
Learn More →Select a city below for local detail. We also survey in Mountain Park, the Cherokee County portion of which shares its name and its city limits with the Fulton County side.
Cherokee County borders Bartow, Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gordon and Pickens. We survey in Dawson, Forsyth and Pickens as well, and the neighboring counties with pages of their own are linked below.
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