Land Surveying in Cave Spring, GA

Land Surveying in Cave Spring, Georgia

Cave Spring is one of only two incorporated cities in Floyd County, and that changes the paperwork more than the distance does. City limits enclose about 3.66 square miles of land, and the 2020 Census counted 1,174 residents and 564 housing units inside them. U.S. Route 411 runs through town and carries northeast 17 miles to Rome. The Alabama line is five miles west, and State Route 100 runs southeast 11 miles to Cedartown, which puts this city closer to the S&S office than any other community on the Rome page.

Recording still happens in Rome. Deeds and plats go to the Clerk of Superior Court, Deed Room, Suite 103, 3 Government Plaza, at the far end of that 17 mile run up U.S. 411. Valuation is handled separately by the Floyd County Board of Assessors at 5 Government Plaza, whose parcel and assessment records are published at qpublic.net/ga/floyd/. Searching there by a Cave Spring address returns the Floyd County parcel number the clerk's index and the tax digest both use.

Approval before recording is the part that is local. The Unified Land Development Code that governs subdivisions across Rome and unincorporated Floyd County defines "City" as the government of the City of Rome and "county" as the unincorporated geographic area, so it is not the code that reaches a division inside the Cave Spring city limits. That work goes to the city, which runs a council and manager government out of Fannin Hall at 10 Georgia Avenue. The council meets the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Cross the corporate line and the rules change to the county's, with the final plat heard by the Rome-Floyd County Planning Commission. Two parcels a few hundred feet apart can therefore take two different routes to the same deed room, which is worth pinning down before a plat is drawn.

Historic fabric complicates siting inside town. The National Park Service lists 25 Cave Spring properties on the National Register, and 23 of them were added on a single day, June 19, 1980. Four of those listings are districts rather than single buildings: the Cave Spring Commercial Historic District with 12 contributing buildings, the Cave Spring Residential Historic District, the Rolator Park Historic District, and the Georgia School for the Deaf Historic District. Chubb Methodist Episcopal Church followed in 1990 and Fairview School in 2017. Older town lots in districts like these often trace back to descriptions written long before modern monumentation, so retracement here leans on the record and on evidence already in the ground rather than on assumption.

Water is the reason the town exists and part of why survey work here pays attention to grade. The city's public utility draws from the limestone spring the town is named for, which the city reports supplying up to 1.3 million gallons to customers in Cave Spring, parts of Floyd County and Alabama. FEMA has studied the creeks in detail: Little Cedar Creek and Mill Race Creek both carry published profiles, and the mapping includes Zone AE with a regulatory floodway. Little Cedar Creek reaches its mouth into Big Cedar Creek about two miles north-northeast of town.

Ground here sits near 664 feet by USGS elevation data, in a stretch of low country where GNIS names both Vans Valley and Dardy Hollow. Karst is part of the picture in this corner of the county, and where subsurface conditions look like they will drive a foundation or a stormwater decision, that is geotechnical work rather than surveying and we will say so. What a survey contributes is the boundary, the contours and the elevations a designer, a lender or a floodplain administrator needs to act on.

S&S Land Surveying works out of 549 West Ave in Cedartown, 11 miles from here down State Route 100. William "Bart" Sims is the firm's licensed Georgia land surveyor, and no plat leaves the office without his seal on it. Estimates are free.