Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Lumpkin County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Dahlonega.
Lumpkin County sits in the Blue Ridge mountains of north Georgia, with Dahlonega as its county seat and its only incorporated municipality. The county lies in the Blue Ridge province. Blood Mountain, which Lumpkin shares with Union County, rises to 4,458 feet and is the fifth highest peak in Georgia. A drainage divide crosses the county: roughly the western 40 percent drains to the Etowah River in the ACT basin and the eastern 60 percent to the upper Chattahoochee in the ACF basin, with the Chestatee River among its waters. That mountain relief 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 Polk County, and takes work throughout Lumpkin 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. Dahlonega is the county seat and the county's only incorporated municipality, and we cover 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 Lumpkin County deed. Instead the State identified land by land district and land lot number, and those identifiers 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. The office holding the record is fixed by the location of the property itself, not by the owner's address, so a Lumpkin County parcel is recorded in Lumpkin County regardless of where the owner happens to live.
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 through the Lumpkin County parcel and assessment portal.
Lumpkin County lies in the Blue Ridge province, the crystalline core of the southern Appalachians. Blood Mountain, shared with Union County, rises to 4,458 feet, the fifth highest peak in the state. The rock here is crystalline rather than the layered limestone of the valleys to the west. The county is also gold country: Dahlonega was the site of the 1828 Georgia Gold Rush and home to a branch of the United States Mint, and a drainage divide runs through the county, with about 40 percent of it draining west to the Etowah River and about 60 percent east to the upper Chattahoochee, the Chestatee River among its waters.
Mountain ground changes how a parcel reads. Slope, rock outcrop and the difference in elevation from one end of a tract to the other all affect where a structure can be sited, how access and a driveway are laid out, how stormwater is handled and what a lender or engineer wants documented before work begins.
A topographic survey records the surface and the contours of that terrain, and a boundary survey establishes where the lines run across it. On steep and wooded mountain parcels the fieldwork simply takes more care, and getting the elevation and the lines right up front keeps a design from being drawn against ground that will not hold it.
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. Dahlonega is the county's only incorporated municipality, and we also cover the unincorporated parts of the county.
Lumpkin County borders Dawson, Fannin, Hall, Union and White counties, all in Georgia. Browse every county and community we cover on our service areas page.
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