Land Surveying in Temple, GA

Land Surveying Services in Temple, Georgia

Temple is a city in Carroll and Haralson counties, sitting in the northeastern corner of Carroll with a very small piece extending west across the Haralson line. As of the 2020 Census, 5,026 of Temple's 5,089 residents lived on the Carroll County side and 63 on the Haralson County side, where the city holds about a hundredth of a square mile out of its 6.8 square miles of land. For anyone hiring a land surveyor in Temple, GA, that split is the first thing to settle, because a deed and a plat are recorded in the county where the land lies rather than the county the mail is addressed to.

Carroll County land records go to the Clerk of Superior Court at 311 Newnan Street in Carrollton, twelve miles south of Temple on State Route 113. Haralson County land records go to the Clerk of Superior Court at 4485 GA Highway 120 in Buchanan, the office that files, records and indexes deeds, plats and cancellations for that county. Parcel and assessment records are published separately, at qpublic.net/ga/carroll/ and qpublic.net/ga/haralson/. Two assessors, two indexes, two courthouses. We establish which one a parcel belongs to from the land itself before anything is drawn for filing.

Permitting in Temple is split too. The city keeps its own community development office at 240 Carrollton Street, but building inspections for the City of Temple are performed by the Carroll County Community Development Department at 423 College Street, Room 503, in Carrollton. Knowing which desk reviews a site plan and which one shows up for the inspection is worth checking before a new lot or a new building goes into the process.

I-20 crosses the southern end of town at Exit 19 and runs east toward Atlanta, and Carroll and Haralson counties are both inside the 29 county Atlanta metropolitan statistical area. The city has grown steadily: 4,228 residents in the 2010 Census and 5,089 in 2020, an increase of a little over twenty percent, across 6.9 square miles of which 6.8 is land. The survey work follows the growth. New subdivision lots need building corners and setback lines staked before the slab goes in and a foundation or as-built survey afterward for the lender. Older acreage at the edges of town needs a boundary retracement before it can be divided, and a division in Georgia produces a plat that has to clear an approval before the clerk will record it.

S&S Land Surveying works out of 549 West Ave in Cedartown, in Polk County north of Temple, and every survey is performed under William "Bart" Sims, the licensed Georgia land surveyor who signs and seals the plat. S&S is licensed in Georgia only.