Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Meriwether County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Greenville, Warm Springs and Manchester.
Meriwether County sits in the western Piedmont of Georgia, with Greenville, the oldest town in the county, as its county seat. The Pine Mountain Range, a quartzite ridge, crosses the south of the county near Warm Springs and Manchester. Warm Springs is known for the mineral springs that drew Franklin D. Roosevelt to build the Little White House there, now a State Historic Site with an adjoining state park.
The county lies in the Piedmont province, and its land is split between two drainage areas of the ACF system: roughly the eastern two thirds drains toward the Upper Flint, and the western third toward the Middle Chattahoochee. This is rolling upland with one distinct ridge across the south rather than ridge and valley country.
S&S Land Surveying LLC works from 549 West Ave in Cedartown and takes surveying work across west Georgia, including Meriwether 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. Greenville is the county seat, and the incorporated places include Warm Springs, Manchester, Luthersville, Woodbury, Gay and Lone Oak. 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 Meriwether 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: Manchester is mostly in Meriwether with a part extending into Talbot, and Pine Mountain is mostly in Harris with a part in Meriwether. For a parcel in either town, the recording county depends on where the land itself sits, not on 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 Meriwether County Tax Assessor's Office at qpublic.net/ga/meriwether/.
Meriwether 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. Most of the county is gently rolling, but the south is different: the Pine Mountain Range, a hard quartzite ridge, runs across it near Warm Springs and Manchester and gives that part of the county real relief.
Warm Springs takes its name from the mineral springs there, the reason Franklin D. Roosevelt built the Little White House, now a State Historic Site with a state park alongside it. The county's land drains two ways within the ACF system, about two thirds east toward the Upper Flint and a third west toward the Middle Chattahoochee. Along the ridge the ground rises and falls enough that elevation is worth mapping before a design is set.
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 near 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 →Select a city for local surveying information. We also cover the unincorporated parts of the county.
Meriwether County borders Coweta, Harris, Pike, Spalding, Talbot, Troup and Upson counties, all in Georgia. The neighbors we cover with their own pages are below.
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