Land Surveying in Tallapoosa, GA

Professional Land Surveying in Tallapoosa, Georgia

S&S Land Surveying works in Tallapoosa and across Haralson County from our office at 549 West Ave in Cedartown, roughly 19 miles away. William "Bart" Sims founded the firm at the end of 2021 after more than 40 years in surveying, and every survey goes out under a licensed Georgia surveyor. Tallapoosa recorded a population of 3,227 in the 2020 Census and sits wholly within Haralson County, which covers 282.2 square miles of the Piedmont province. The city takes its name from the Tallapoosa River, which runs through the county and was panned for gold. One detail catches property owners out: the county seat is Buchanan, not Tallapoosa and not Bremen. Deeds and plats for Tallapoosa land are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court at 4485 GA Hwy. 120 in Buchanan, following O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1, which puts recording in the county where the land lies.

Georgia is a metes and bounds state rather than a Public Land Survey System state, so descriptions here run on land lots instead of township and range. Haralson County was created in 1856 out of Carroll and Polk, which means deeds in the county may reference either of two survey grids. Land carried over from Carroll was laid out in the 1827 lottery at 202.5-acre land lots described by district and land lot. Land carried over from Polk descends from the 1832 Cherokee lottery, cut at 160-acre lots and described by section, district and land lot. Retracing an older Tallapoosa boundary starts with working out which grid the description was written against, because the two do not read alike. Haralson is also an Alabama line county, bordering Cleburne County, Alabama on the west, along with Carroll, Paulding and Polk in Georgia, so work on the western side of the county runs toward the state line. We confirm the recording county and the controlling monuments before fieldwork begins. Current parcel and assessment data is on the county portal at qpublic.net/ga/haralson/.