Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking in Cobb County. Licensed Georgia surveyor.
If you found us while searching for a surveyor in Cobb County, here is the straight version of how we work. S&S Land Surveying operates from one office, at 549 West Ave in Cedartown, and we travel east from Northwest Georgia into Cobb County for survey work. There is no Cobb County branch. What we bring instead is a firm that works the 1832 Cherokee lottery grid every week, the same grid Cobb County parcels are still described on.
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, and the firm holds 4.9 stars from 50+ Google reviews. Our licensed Georgia surveyor handles boundary surveys, ALTA/NSPS land title surveys, topographic surveys, site plans, parcel splits and building staking countywide, from Marietta and Smyrna to Acworth near the Bartow line and Austell on the Douglas side.
Cobb sits in the Piedmont province across 339.7 square miles. The Chattahoochee River forms the Cobb and Fulton county line, so an east side boundary can close on a natural monument rather than a fence or a right of way. Kennesaw Mountain rises to 1,808 feet and is a monadnock according to the National Park Service, making it the county high point. Sweat, Blackjack, Lost and Cobb County's Pine Mountain, a separate feature from the Pine Mountain in Bartow County, add further relief. A small arm of Lake Allatoona, a US Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Etowah, reaches into Cobb near Acworth, and I-20 clips the extreme southern end of the county.
Start with the fact that trips up title searches here: Roswell was part of Cobb County until the 1932 consolidation, so pre-1932 Roswell land records are Cobb County records, not Fulton County records. Run a chain of title on a Roswell parcel back past that date and the Cobb books are where it goes. Roswell still straddles the Cobb and Fulton line today, and Austell straddles Cobb and Douglas, a useful reminder that a mailing address does not decide the county a deed is recorded in.
Georgia is a metes and bounds state rather than a Public Land Survey System state. Land here was granted by the State of Georgia, never the federal government, and distributed through eight land lotteries between 1805 and 1833, so the BLM rectangular survey never applied. Cobb County came out of the 1832 Cherokee lottery, which laid out 160 acre land lots along with 40 acre gold lots, so its parcels are identified by section, district and land lot number. Those numbers are not just history: they still appear in Cobb legal descriptions, and pulling an original grant takes all three.
Under O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1, deeds are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land lies. In Cobb County that office is at 70 Haynes St., Marietta, GA 30090, and Cobb formally brands it as a Real Estate Division. 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. Cobb runs its own property records system rather than qPublic, at cobbassessor.org.
Cobb County work leans commercial, and the ALTA/NSPS land title survey is the one most often driving a closing calendar. If a lender or title underwriter has asked for one, raise it first: the Table A items are settled up front and they set the scope of the field work.
Retracing Cobb County lines to the section, district and land lot they came from, and setting corners you can find again.
Learn More →Title survey work for Cobb commercial transactions, built to the ALTA/NSPS standard with the Table A items your underwriter asks for.
Learn More →Elevation and feature mapping for design, which matters on the Piedmont terrain around Kennesaw Mountain.
Learn More →Plans for submittal to the county or a Cobb municipality, showing the parcel as it exists and as proposed.
Learn More →Dividing a tract into recordable parcels, including the approval the Plat Act requires before recording.
Learn More →Putting the approved plan on the ground so foundations, building lines and setbacks land where they should.
Learn More →Cobb County has seven incorporated cities and we survey in all of them.
Cobb County borders Bartow, Cherokee, Douglas, Fulton and Paulding, and we work in all five. That matters when a tract sits on a county line: the recording follows the line, not the mailing address.
Tell us where the parcel is and what the survey has to accomplish.
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