Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Murray County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Chatsworth and Eton.
Murray County sits in northwest Georgia, with Chatsworth as its county seat. At the county scale Murray belongs to the Ridge and Valley province, and Chatsworth rests on the Conasauga lowlands of the Great Valley. To the northeast the land climbs into the Cohutta Mountains, gathering in Fort Mountain, the Cohutta Wilderness and a share of the Chattahoochee National Forest, while off to the southeast Carters Lake stands on the Coosawattee River. Ground that runs from valley floor to mountain crest is why a topographic survey and a site plan matter here, and why the contours are worth having in hand before a design is fixed rather than after.
S&S Land Surveying LLC works from 549 West Ave in Cedartown, in Polk County, and takes work throughout Murray 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. Chatsworth is the county seat and Eton is the county's other incorporated town, and we cover the unincorporated county as well.
Land in Georgia is described by metes and bounds. The rectangular survey system of townships and ranges that covers much of the country was never applied in the state, since Georgia distributed its land by State grant rather than through the federal government; there is no such grid beneath a Murray County deed. In its place the State marked out land by district and by land lot number, identifiers that still appear in the legal descriptions carried on today's deeds and plats. Following them back to their source is typically where retracing an older boundary begins.
The recording statute, O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1, places a deed with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land is located. What determines the office of record is the situation of the property itself rather than the owner's residence, and so a Murray County parcel is recorded in Murray County whatever address the owner keeps.
Plats are controlled by O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. The clerk files and records a plat that conforms to the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, prepared on a sheet ranging from no less than 8.5 by 11 inches to no more than 24 by 36 inches. The Act adds that a subdivision plat needs approval from the planning commission or the governing authority before it can be recorded, so dividing a tract means clearing local review ahead of the clerk. Current parcel and assessment data for the county is published through the Murray County parcel and assessment portal.
Murray County carries two landscapes at once. Across its western and central reaches it lies in the Ridge and Valley province, with Chatsworth set on the Conasauga lowlands of the Great Valley. Toward the northeast the land climbs into the Cohutta Mountains, taking in Fort Mountain and the Cohutta Wilderness, and in the southeast Carters Lake stands behind its dam on the Coosawattee River. A parcel down near Chatsworth and one up toward the Cohuttas meet a surveyor on entirely different ground, and the change in elevation across the county is the first thing the fieldwork has to account for.
Down on the valley floor the bedrock includes limestone, and that is what ties Murray to the region's cave country. Georgia EPD's cave survey groups Murray with the northwest counties of the state that hold the greater share of its caves. The limestone is dense Paleozoic rock, so groundwater threads along its joints and seams rather than the whole body, dissolving quiet openings over time: sinks, cavities and caves that give no notice at the surface. Up in the Cohutta high country the rock is crystalline rather than limestone, and this solution behavior does not apply there.
For an owner the consequences are practical. In the valley, karst can move where a building belongs, drive how a foundation is designed, change how stormwater is carried and shape what a lender or engineer wants on record before work starts; on the mountain side of the county, slope and elevation do that work instead. A topographic survey sets down the shape of the ground and a boundary survey establishes where the lines cross it. Probing what sits below grade is geotechnical work, not surveying, and where a site warrants it we will say so and steer you to that specialist.
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, along with Eton, the county's other incorporated town.
Murray County borders Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon and Whitfield counties in Georgia, and meets Bradley and Polk counties across the Tennessee state line. The neighbors we cover with their own pages are below.
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