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 among the highest peaks 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 kind of mountain relief is what puts the value in a topographic survey and a site plan, and why the contours are worth establishing before a design is committed 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 uses the metes and bounds system. The federal rectangular survey, with its townships and ranges, never applied here, because the State of Georgia rather than the federal government granted the land, so a Lumpkin County deed has no township and range grid under it. The State identified parcels by land district and land lot number instead, and those references still sit in the legal descriptions on deeds and plats recorded today. Retracing an older boundary generally starts by following them back.
By O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1, a deed is recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court in the county where the land lies. The record follows the land, not the owner: a Lumpkin County parcel is recorded in Lumpkin County regardless of where the owner may live.
Plats answer to O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. Once a plat conforms to the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, the clerk files and records it, on a sheet held between 8.5 by 11 inches and 24 by 36 inches. The statute also prevents a subdivision plat from being recorded until the planning commission or the governing authority signs off, so splitting land calls for local review before the clerk becomes involved. 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, set on the hard crystalline rock at the core of the southern Appalachians rather than the layered limestone of the valleys to the west. Blood Mountain rises to 4,458 feet on the line Lumpkin shares with Union County, one of the highest summits in Georgia. This is where the 1828 Georgia Gold Rush began, and the strike drew a branch of the United States Mint to Dahlonega; the Chestatee River is among the streams that drain the county. Because the bedrock is crystalline and not limestone, Lumpkin has none of the sinkhole and cave country that the karst counties to the west are known for.
On ground like this it is elevation that governs a parcel. The pitch of a slope, the ledges where bedrock breaks through and the drop from the high corner of a tract to the low one all bear on where a house can sensibly sit, how a drive and access get routed, how stormwater leaves the site and what a lender or engineer expects on record before anything is built.
A topographic survey puts numbers to that surface, mapping the contours and the fall of the land, and a boundary survey pins down where the property lines actually run across it. Steep, timbered mountain tracts simply take longer to walk and measure, and settling the elevations and the corners before design begins keeps a plan off ground that will not carry 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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