Land Surveying in Villa Rica, GA

Land Surveying Services in Villa Rica, Georgia

Villa Rica is a city in Carroll and Douglas counties. Roughly two thirds of its land area lies in northeastern Carroll County and the rest in northwestern Douglas County, with the 2020 Census counting 9,706 residents on the Carroll side and 7,264 on the Douglas side, and on top of that there are unincorporated areas in Paulding County that carry Villa Rica postal addresses. Anyone hiring a land surveyor in Villa Rica, GA should expect the recording county to be pinned down before the work starts, because a Villa Rica mailing address does not tell you which courthouse a deed or a plat belongs in.

Carroll County land is recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court at 311 Newnan Street in Carrollton. Douglas County land is recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court at the Douglas County Courthouse, 8700 Hospital Drive in Douglasville. Parcel and assessment records live in two separate places as well, at qpublic.net/ga/carroll/ for the Carroll side and qpublic.net/ga/douglas/ for the Douglas side. The two assessors maintain their own records, so a parcel that pulls up cleanly in one portal will not appear in the other. Research on a Villa Rica tract starts with establishing which index holds the chain of title.

Inside the city limits the review runs through Villa Rica. Subdivision plats are one of the application types that go to the Villa Rica Planning and Zoning Commission, along with rezonings, annexations, concept plans, land development and address assignment. That commission meets on the third Tuesday of each month at the Holt-Bishop Justice Center at 101 Main Street. What a plat is being drawn for shapes what has to be on it, which is why we ask that question before the field work rather than after.

Villa Rica sits on the ridgeline that separates the Chattahoochee and Tallapoosa river basins, and that is not trivia on a parcel here. Runoff from one part of a tract can leave for a different river system than runoff from another part, so contours, detention sizing and stream buffer questions on a Villa Rica site depend on where the divide actually crosses the property. This is the kind of ground where a topographic survey earns its keep before anyone commits to a grading plan.

US 78, the Bankhead Highway, runs through the center of town, with Temple six miles west and Douglasville ten miles east. I-20 crosses the southern part of the city with access at exits 24 and 26 and runs 32 miles east to Atlanta, which puts Villa Rica in the west metro Atlanta corridor. Both Carroll and Douglas are among the 29 counties in the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area. The city recorded a population of 16,970 in the 2020 Census across 14.8 square miles, 14.6 of it land. S&S Land Surveying works out of 549 West Ave in Cedartown, in Polk County, 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.