Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Harris County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Hamilton, Pine Mountain and Waverly Hall.
Harris County sits in the western Piedmont of Georgia on the Alabama state line, with Hamilton as its county seat. The Pine Mountain Range crosses the north of the county, and along it lie F.D. Roosevelt State Park, the largest state park in Georgia, and Callaway Gardens. Dowdell's Knob, about 1,395 feet, stands on Pine Mountain near the Meriwether line.
The Chattahoochee River forms the county's western boundary and the line with Alabama, and Harris drains mostly through the Middle Chattahoochee and Lake Harding sub-basin of the ACF system. Away from the Pine Mountain ridge the county is rolling Piedmont upland.
S&S Land Surveying LLC works from 549 West Ave in Cedartown and takes surveying work across west Georgia, including Harris County. 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. Hamilton is the county seat, and the incorporated places include Shiloh, Waverly Hall and Pine Mountain. 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 Harris County deed. Land in this part of Georgia was distributed by the State in land lots grouped into land districts, and those land lot and district numbers still appear in the legal descriptions on deeds and plats recorded today. 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, fixed by the location of the property itself rather than the owner's address. Two towns here cross county lines: Pine Mountain is mostly in Harris with a part in Meriwether, and West Point is mostly in Troup with a part in Harris. For a parcel in either town, the recording county follows where the land actually sits, not the mailing address.
Plats are governed by O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. The clerk files and records plats that meet the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, and 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 by the Harris County Tax Assessor's Office at qpublic.net/ga/harris/.
Harris County lies in the Piedmont province, the belt of rolling, weathered upland that runs across the middle of Georgia. Unlike the Ridge and Valley country farther north, with its many long parallel ridges, the Piedmont here is gentler, more even ground. The standout feature is the Pine Mountain Range, which crosses the north of the county and carries real relief above the rolling ground on either side.
F.D. Roosevelt State Park, the largest state park in Georgia, runs along Pine Mountain, and Dowdell's Knob, about 1,395 feet, stands on the ridge near the Meriwether line. Callaway Gardens and the town of Pine Mountain sit on the same range. The Chattahoochee River forms the western boundary and the state line, and the county drains mostly through the Middle Chattahoochee and Lake Harding sub-basin of the ACF system. That mix of a high northern ridge and a river boundary puts more elevation into a Harris County job than a flat map would suggest.
For a property owner this matters in practical terms. A topographic survey records the surface and its contours, which counts for more on the sloped ground along Pine Mountain, and a boundary survey establishes where the lines run across it. On the rolling ground away from the ridge the value is in accurate contours and clean line retracement.
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 →Hamilton is the county seat. Select a city below for local surveying information. We also cover the unincorporated parts of the county.
Harris County borders Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot and Troup counties in Georgia, and meets Chambers and Lee counties across the Chattahoochee River in Alabama. The neighbors we cover with their own pages are below.
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