Land Surveying in Acworth, GA

Land Surveying in Acworth, Georgia

The incorporated city of Acworth sits entirely inside Cobb County. Bartow County and Cherokee County both touch the city line, and Census boundary files show no part of the city crossing into either one, so a tract inside the limits indexes in a single county. That is worth confirming before anything else on an Acworth job, because a deed and a plat are filed where the land lies, not where the mail is delivered.

Cobb County deeds go to the Superior Court Clerk's Real Estate Division at 10 East Park Square, Building C, in Marietta, roughly fifteen miles southeast of Acworth. The clerk's court and administrative divisions are housed separately, at 70 Haynes Street. Plats no longer cross that counter at all: O.C.G.A. 15-6-67 requires every plat submitted for filing with a clerk of superior court to be submitted electronically, as a full size image meeting the specifications the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority sets, and the same statute fixes what the drawing has to carry. Recorded instruments can be pulled at research.cobbsuperiorcourtclerk.com or through the statewide index at search.gsccca.org.

Owners who want to look up their own parcel first should start with the Cobb County Board of Tax Assessors, which publishes ownership, valuation and building data. The older qPublic address for Cobb redirects to that same site. Cobb County GIS keeps a separate Plat and Deeds page and a public map portal at gis.cobbcounty.gov, which is usually the faster way to find the recorded plat book and page for a subdivision lot.

Approval is a city matter here. Acworth routes a final plat to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen for final review, and the city's regulations state that a recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission is not required at that step. The applicant then records the approved plat with the Clerk of Superior Court of Cobb County and returns a copy for city files. Preliminary plat approval lapses 24 months out. Planning, Zoning and Economic Development works from City Hall at 4415 Center Street, weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Acworth also sets the drafting standard the plat has to meet, and it is specific. Boundary distances are carried to the nearest one hundredth of a foot and angles to the nearest minute. The traverse has to balance and close no worse than one to 5,000, and the error of closure has to be stated on the face of the plat. Courses and distances must run to no fewer than three recognized permanent monuments, benchmarks or street intersections, each of them described. The tract is located by land district and land lot with total acreage, and where a city, county or land lot line crosses the property it has to be tied to the subdivision lines by distance and angle.

Then there is the water. The city describes itself as nestled along the banks of Lake Acworth and Lake Allatoona, which is where the Lake City nickname comes from. Allatoona is a Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Etowah River, authorized under the Flood Control Acts of 1941 and 1944, impounded beginning in December 1949 and in full operation by January 1950. It carries 270 miles of shoreline, and the Corps has issued 978 shoreline use permits against it. Where a private lot runs up to federal project land, that line gets located in the field rather than scaled off a map, and the permit record can matter as much as the deed description.

S&S Land Surveying works out of 549 West Ave in Cedartown, and William "Bart" Sims is the licensed Georgia land surveyor who signs and seals every Acworth plat. S&S is licensed in Georgia only.