Professional boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans & more in Haralson County. Licensed Georgia surveyor.
S&S Land Surveying works throughout Haralson County, from the courthouse in Buchanan out to Bremen, Tallapoosa, Temple and Waco. We operate from 549 West Ave in Cedartown, a short drive north of the county line, and every survey is performed under a licensed Georgia surveyor. William "Bart" Sims founded the firm at the end of 2021 after more than 40 years of surveying experience, and the company holds 4.9 stars from 50+ Google reviews.
Haralson County covers 282.2 square miles of the Piedmont province and recorded a population of 29,919 in the 2020 Census. The Tallapoosa River runs through the county, and gold was panned along it. Buchanan is the county seat, which catches out property owners who assume the courthouse sits in Bremen or Tallapoosa. It matters in practice, because the deed and plat books for the whole county are kept in Buchanan no matter which city name a parcel carries in its mailing address.
Most of the work here is rural and small town: retracing boundaries on acreage that has not been surveyed in decades, dividing family land, setting corners ahead of a fence or a new house, and preparing site plans and topographic mapping for permit review. Haralson is also an Alabama line county, bordering Cleburne County, Alabama on the west, so the westernmost tracts in the county end at a state boundary.
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, handed out through eight land lotteries between 1805 and 1833, so the rectangular township and range grid used across much of the country never applied. What Georgia has instead is the land lot and district system, and those numbers still appear in legal descriptions today. Pulling an original grant takes the land lot number, the district number, and inside the original Cherokee County territory, the section number as well.
Haralson County is an unusual case, because of how it was created. It was formed in 1856 out of Carroll and Polk, and those two parent counties were surveyed under different lotteries. Carroll was laid out in the 1827 lottery at 202.5-acre land lots described by district and land lot. Polk descends from the 1832 Cherokee lottery, cut at 160-acre lots described by section, district and land lot. Which means deeds in Haralson County may reference either grid, with different original lot sizes and different descriptor formats depending on which parent county a tract came out of. Reading a Haralson description correctly starts with recognizing which of the two surveys it belongs to, since mistaking one for the other sends a retracement to the wrong point of beginning.
Recording follows O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1: a deed is recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land lies. For Haralson County that office is at 4485 GA Hwy. 120 in Buchanan. Plats fall under O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act, which has the clerk file and record plats, requires those plats to meet the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, sets sheet sizes from a minimum of 8.5 by 11 inches to a maximum of 24 by 36, and provides that a subdivision plat cannot be recorded without approval from the planning commission or the governing authority. Current parcel and assessment records for the county are published at qpublic.net/ga/haralson/.
One local trap is worth stating plainly. Bremen and Temple both straddle the Carroll and Haralson county line. A Bremen or Temple mailing address does not tell you which county a parcel records in, and the deed, the plat and the approving authority all follow the land rather than the post office. We confirm the recording county before anything goes to a courthouse.
Retracing deeded lines and setting corners on Haralson County acreage and city lots.
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Learn More →Dividing acreage into new tracts, with plats prepared to Georgia recording standards.
Learn More →Staking building corners and setback lines before construction starts.
Learn More →Haralson County has five incorporated cities: Bremen, Buchanan, Tallapoosa, Temple and Waco. We survey in all of them, plus the unincorporated county in between. Click a city below for local detail.
Haralson County borders Carroll, Paulding and Polk in Georgia, and Cleburne County, Alabama on the west.
Tell us the parcel and the city, and we will confirm the recording county and send you a free estimate.
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