Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking in Hall County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Gainesville and Lake Lanier.
If you are weighing a call about a Hall County parcel, start with how we are set up. S&S Land Surveying works out of a single office at 549 West Ave in Cedartown and travels across North Georgia into Hall County for survey work. There is no Hall County office. What makes the trip worth it is familiarity with the record: we read and retrace Georgia's district and land lot grid, the framework every Hall County deed and plat is tied to, as routine work.
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 to the work, and the firm holds 4.9 stars from 50+ Google reviews. Our licensed Georgia surveyor covers boundary surveys, ALTA/NSPS land title surveys, topographic surveys, site plans, parcel splits and building staking across the county, from Gainesville and Oakwood to Flowery Branch and the Lake Lanier shoreline.
Hall County sits in the Upper Piedmont, with its northern edge rising into the Blue Ridge foothills. Lake Sidney Lanier, the US Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Chattahoochee River, is the dominant feature of the county and puts a great deal of shoreline and backlot frontage into local survey work. Gainesville is the county seat.
Georgia is a metes and bounds state, not a Public Land Survey System state. Land here was granted by the State of Georgia rather than the federal government and handed out through a series of land lotteries, so the federal rectangular survey never applied and there is no township and range to fall back on. A Hall County description is written in the district and land lot framework the State laid out, and those district and land lot numbers still carry the legal description on deeds and plats recorded today.
Several Hall County cities cross county lines, which matters for where a deed belongs. Buford sits mostly in Gwinnett, Braselton spans several counties, Gillsville extends into Jackson, and Lula reaches into Banks. The recording county follows the parcel, not the mailing address, so an in-town address is not proof of where the record sits. Gainesville, Flowery Branch, Oakwood and Clermont lie wholly within Hall.
Under O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1, deeds are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land lies, which for a Hall County parcel is the Clerk of Superior Court of Hall County in Gainesville. 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, sheet sizes run from a minimum of 8.5 by 11 inches to a maximum of 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 qpublic.net/ga/hall.
Hall County mixes lakefront, residential and commercial property around Gainesville and Lake Lanier. On commercial transactions the ALTA/NSPS land title survey is usually the item a closing waits on, so if a lender or title underwriter has called for one, raise it at the first call: the Table A items are agreed before the crew mobilizes and they set the scope of the field work.
Retracing Hall County lines through the district and land lot they originate from, and setting recoverable corners.
Learn More →Title survey work for Hall County commercial transactions, prepared to the ALTA/NSPS standard with the Table A items your underwriter requires.
Learn More →Elevation and feature mapping for design and permitting, including shoreline and hillside parcels around Lake Lanier.
Learn More →Plans prepared for submittal to Hall County or to a city such as Gainesville, Flowery Branch or Oakwood.
Learn More →Dividing acreage into recordable parcels, including the approval the Plat Act requires before recording.
Learn More →Transferring the approved plan to the ground so foundations, building lines and setbacks are built where the plan places them.
Learn More →Select a city below for local detail. We also survey Clermont, Gillsville, Lula and the unincorporated parts of the county.
Hall County borders nine others: Banks, Barrow, Dawson, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Habersham, Jackson, Lumpkin and White. Those with pages of their own are linked below.
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