Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Paulding County. Licensed Georgia surveyor.
Paulding County has redrawn its own outline more often than most counties in Georgia. It gave up land to Campbell, Carroll, Cass (now Bartow), Cobb, Douglas, Haralson and Polk, then annexed parts of Carroll, Cobb, Douglas and Polk between 1850 and 1874. For anyone tracing an older chain of title, that is not trivia. A tract standing in Paulding today may have been described, taxed and conveyed under a different county's name at the time the earliest deeds in its chain were written.
Those shifting lines shape how we approach research here. When a description calls for a corner set before the county settled into its present shape, the work has to follow the ground rather than the modern county name. The land lot and district numbers are usually the steadiest part of an old description, because the numbering assigned in the original state survey stayed with the land even as the county boundary around it moved.
S&S Land Surveying covers all of Paulding County from our office in Cedartown, serving Dallas, Hiram, Braswell and the unincorporated county between them. The terrain is Piedmont, rolling and wooded, and Sweetwater Creek rises in the southwestern part of the county. Braswell sits astride the Paulding and Polk line, a standing reminder that a mailing address does not by itself tell you which courthouse holds the record.
Georgia never came under the federal rectangular survey, so there is no township and range here. Land in this state was granted by the State of Georgia and distributed through a series of lotteries, and property is described by metes and bounds. Paulding sits on the grid laid out for the 1832 Cherokee lottery, where lots were drawn at 160 acres and a parcel is identified by section, district and land lot. Those numbers still appear in legal descriptions written today.
Deeds and plats are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court of the county where the land lies, under O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1. The Paulding County clerk's office is at 280 Constitution Blvd., Rm 1023, in Dallas. Because so much ground moved in and out of the county between 1850 and 1874, a thorough search here can reach back into books now held by a neighboring county, and we plan title research with that possibility in mind.
Plats fall under O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. It requires a recorded plat to meet the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, sets the sheet at no smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches and no larger than 24 by 36, and bars the clerk from recording a subdivision plat until the planning commission or governing authority has approved it. Paulding publishes its parcel and assessment data on the county's own site rather than through qPublic, at the Paulding County Board of Assessors.
Retracing deeded lines anywhere in Paulding, including chains that run back through the county's earlier boundaries.
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Learn More →Contour and elevation mapping across Paulding's rolling Piedmont ground for design and drainage.
Learn More →Dividing acreage into recordable lots, with plats prepared to meet approval requirements before filing.
Learn More →Setting building corners and offset lines so structures go in where the approved plan shows them.
Learn More →Paulding has three incorporated cities. Select one for local detail, or call for work anywhere in the unincorporated county.
Paulding borders six counties, and we survey in every one of them. Given how much land passed between these counties in the 1800s, a Paulding title question often becomes a neighboring county question.
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