Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Douglas County. Licensed Georgia surveyor.
At 200.1 square miles of land area, Douglas is the most compact county S&S Land Surveying serves. Compact does not mean simple. Its northeastern edge is drawn by the Chattahoochee River, which forms the Douglas and Fulton line, and two of its three incorporated cities carry addresses that cross a county boundary. Austell straddles Cobb and Douglas, and Villa Rica straddles Carroll and Douglas, so the city on an envelope is a poor guide to which clerk holds the deed.
The county is Piedmont, but Sweetwater Creek State Park shows how uneven that label can be on the ground. The park holds rugged hills, rocky outcrops and shoals, the ruins of the New Manchester mill, and the 215-acre George Sparks Reservoir, all operated by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Terrain like that rewards a real topographic survey and punishes assumptions drawn from a flat aerial image.
We work throughout Douglas County from our office in Cedartown, covering Douglasville, the Austell and Villa Rica sides that fall in Douglas, and the unincorporated county. S&S Land Surveying was founded at the end of 2021 by William "Bart" Sims, who brings more than 40 years of surveying experience to the field work and the research behind it.
Georgia is a metes-and-bounds state. Land here was granted by the State of Georgia and handed out through lotteries, never by the federal government, so the rectangular survey of townships and ranges never applied. Douglas sits on the grid of the 1827 lottery of the Creek cession, where lots were laid out at 202.5 acres and a parcel is called out by district and land lot. That is a two-part descriptor. Counties immediately north of here came out of the 1832 Cherokee lottery and carry a third element, a section number, on smaller 160-acre lots. Reading a Douglas description while expecting a Cherokee-style call is a good way to go looking for a number that was never there.
Under O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1, deeds are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land lies. The Douglas County clerk's office is at 8700 Hospital Dr. in Douglasville. That rule carries real weight in a county with two line-crossing cities: a parcel with an Austell or Villa Rica address may record in Cobb or Carroll, and confirming the recording county is part of the work before a search begins.
Plats are governed by O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. Recorded plats must meet the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, sheets run from a minimum of 8.5 by 11 inches to a maximum of 24 by 36, and a subdivision plat cannot be recorded until the planning commission or governing authority has approved it. Parcel and assessment records for the county are published at qPublic Douglas County.
Retracing lines across Douglas County, including parcels whose address falls in a city that crosses the county line.
Learn More →Surveys to the ALTA/NSPS standard for commercial closings and refinancing around Douglasville.
Learn More →Contour mapping for the uneven ground found near Sweetwater Creek and the Chattahoochee.
Learn More →Splitting tracts into recordable lots described by district and land lot.
Learn More →Field staking of corners, offsets and building lines ahead of construction.
Learn More →Douglas has three incorporated cities, and two of them cross a county line. Select one for local detail.
Douglas borders four counties, and with two shared cities and a river boundary, our work here crosses into each of them.
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