Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking in Fulton County. Licensed Georgia surveyor.
Here is how we are set up. S&S Land Surveying runs from one office, at 549 West Ave in Cedartown, and we travel from Northwest Georgia into Fulton County for survey work. There is no Atlanta office. What we bring is fluency in both land lot grids this county is built on, which is why a Fulton description can look unfamiliar from one end of the county to the other.
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 Milton and Alpharetta in the north to Union City and Palmetto in the south.
Fulton is Georgia's most populous county, with 1,066,710 residents counted in the 2020 Census across 526.8 square miles of Piedmont. Its shape drives practical decisions: Census geometry gives the county a 47.2 mile north to south span over roughly 527 square miles, so it is long and narrow, and two Fulton parcels can sit the better part of an hour apart. The Chattahoochee River forms its diagonal border, northeast to southwest. Atlanta extends past the county line into DeKalb, a routine source of confusion about which county an address records in.
Fulton has a records history that shows up directly in its deeds. Effective January 1, 1932, Fulton absorbed two neighboring counties: Milton County, created in 1857 out of Cobb, Cherokee and Forsyth, all of it Cherokee survey territory, and Campbell County to the south. Because the north end was formed from Cherokee lottery land while Atlanta and south Fulton descend from the 1821 lottery by way of DeKalb, a Fulton deed may reference either grid. Which format you encounter depends on where the land lies, so the first question on a Fulton retracement is often which half of the county you are 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 handed out through eight land lotteries between 1805 and 1833, so there is no township and range to rely on. The 1821 lottery laid out 202.5 acre lots described by district and land lot; the 1832 Cherokee lottery used 160 acre lots described by section, district and land lot. Both formats still appear in Fulton legal descriptions. Several Fulton cities cross county lines, including Atlanta into DeKalb, College Park into Clayton and Roswell into Cobb, so an address never settles the recording county.
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 Fulton the office carries a fuller title, Clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts, at 136 Pryor St. SW, Rm 106, Atlanta, GA 30303. 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, sheets run from 8.5 by 11 inches up to 24 by 36 inches, and a subdivision plat cannot be recorded until the planning commission or governing authority has approved it. County property records are published at fultonassessor.org.
Fulton is where our commercial work concentrates, and the ALTA/NSPS land title survey is the deliverable most often standing between a deal and closing. If a lender or title underwriter has asked for one, raise it at the first call: the Table A items are negotiated up front and define the scope more than parcel size does.
Retracing Fulton lines to the land lot they came from, whether a 202.5 acre 1821 lot or a Cherokee sectional lot.
Learn More →Title survey work for Fulton commercial transactions, prepared to the ALTA/NSPS standard with the Table A items your underwriter specifies.
Learn More →Elevation and feature mapping for design and permitting, including parcels running down toward the Chattahoochee.
Learn More →Plans for submittal to Fulton County or one of its incorporated cities, each with its own review.
Learn More →Dividing a tract into recordable parcels, including the approval the Plat Act requires before a plat reaches the clerk.
Learn More →Setting the approved plan on the ground so foundations, building lines and setbacks are built where the plan calls for.
Learn More →Select a city below for local detail. We also survey Fairburn, Palmetto, South Fulton, Hapeville, Chattahoochee Hills and the Fulton portion of Mountain Park.
Fulton County touches ten others: Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth and Gwinnett. Those with pages of their own are linked below.
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