Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Floyd County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Rome and Cave Spring.
Floyd County covers 509.8 square miles and holds a 2020 population of 98,584. Rome is the county seat, sitting where the Etowah and the Oostanaula come together to form the Coosa. Three rivers meeting inside one city shapes a good deal of the survey work in the county, and river frontage tends to make a boundary question more interesting rather than less.
The county lies in the Ridge and Valley province: long parallel valleys and ridges left behind as folded sedimentary rock eroded at different rates. The ridges stand on sandstone and chert, the valleys on shale and limestone. That pattern puts real relief between one part of a tract and another, which is why topographic surveys and site plans carry weight here, and why a set of contours is often worth having before a design is finished rather than after.
S&S Land Surveying LLC works from 549 West Ave in Cedartown, in adjacent Polk County, so Floyd County is next door rather than a long haul. The firm was founded at the end of 2021 by William "Bart" Sims, who has more than 40 years of surveying experience, and the work is performed by a licensed Georgia surveyor. We hold a 4.9 star rating across 50+ Google reviews. Rome and Cave Spring are the county's incorporated cities, and we take work throughout the unincorporated county as well.
Georgia is a metes and bounds state. The federal rectangular survey system never applied here, because land in Georgia was granted by the State rather than by the federal government, so there is no township and range grid underneath a Floyd County deed. The State handed out land through a series of lotteries instead. Floyd County land came out of the 1832 Cherokee lottery, which divided the territory into 160 acre land lots and identified each one by section, district and land lot number. Those identifiers are still in use. They appear in legal descriptions on deeds and plats recorded today, and following them back is normally where the retracement of an older boundary starts.
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 office holding the record is fixed by the location of the property itself, not by the owner's address, and in Floyd County that office is at 3 Government Plaza Ste. 101, Rome, GA 30161. Because Floyd was one of the two counties Polk County was created from in 1851, an older chain of title in the southern part of the region can run through Floyd County records even where the land sits elsewhere today.
Plats are governed by O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. The clerk files and records plats meeting the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, on a sheet no smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches and no larger than 24 by 36 inches. The Act further provides that a subdivision plat cannot be recorded without approval from the planning commission or the governing authority, so a division of land has to clear local review before the clerk can accept it. Current parcel and assessment data for the county is published at qpublic.net/ga/floyd/.
Floyd County sits almost entirely in the Ridge and Valley province, where long parallel valleys and ridges were formed by the erosion of folded sedimentary rock. Ridges stand on sandstone and chert, valleys open on shale and limestone. That limestone is the reason this corner of the state is cave country. Georgia EPD records that Bartow County and the eight counties north and west of it, Floyd among them, together hold 448 of Georgia's 513 known caves.
The limestone here is Paleozoic, hard and dense, so groundwater moves along joints in the rock rather than soaking through it evenly. Over time that produces solution features: caves, sinks and voids that are not visible from the surface. Cave Spring, in the southwest of the county, takes its name from exactly this. Its limestone cave and mineral spring produce over two million gallons a day and supply drinking water locally.
For a property owner this matters in practical terms. Karst ground can affect where a structure is sited, how a foundation is designed, how stormwater is handled and what a lender or engineer wants documented before work begins. A topographic survey records the surface expression of that terrain, and a boundary survey establishes where the lines run across it. Subsurface investigation itself is geotechnical work rather than surveying, so where conditions warrant it we will say so and recommend that specialist.
Retracing deed and plat calls to locate and mark the lines and corners of a parcel.
Learn More →Title and lender grade surveys prepared to the ALTA/NSPS standards for commercial transactions.
Learn More →Elevation and contour mapping for design work, drainage review and permitting.
Learn More →Existing conditions and proposed improvements drawn for city and county permit submittals.
Learn More →Dividing a tract into new parcels, prepared for the local approval a plat filing requires.
Learn More →Setting building corners, offsets and control so the work gets built where the plan puts it.
Learn More →Select a city for local surveying information. We also cover the unincorporated parts of the county.
Floyd County borders Bartow, Chattooga, Gordon, Polk and Walker counties in Georgia, and meets Cherokee County across the Alabama state line. The neighbors we cover with their own pages are below.
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