Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Troup County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving LaGrange, Hogansville and West Point.
Troup County sits in the western Piedmont of Georgia on the Alabama state line, with LaGrange as its county seat. The Chattahoochee River forms the county's western boundary and the line with Alabama, and West Point Lake backs up behind West Point Dam along that river. River and reservoir frontage tends to make a boundary question more involved rather than less, and that is a large part of the survey work in this county.
The county lies wholly in the Piedmont province, and its land drains entirely through the Middle Chattahoochee and Lake Harding sub-basin of the ACF system. This is rolling upland country rather than ridge and valley, so the terrain questions are mostly about grade and drainage toward the river.
S&S Land Surveying LLC works from 549 West Ave in Cedartown and takes surveying work across west Georgia, including Troup 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. LaGrange is the county seat, with Hogansville and West Point completing the county's incorporated cities. 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 Troup 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. The office holding the record is fixed by the location of the property itself, not by the owner's address. West Point straddles the Troup and Harris county line, with most of the city in Troup, so where a West Point parcel records depends on which county the land actually sits in rather than 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 Troup County Board of Assessors at qpublic.net/ga/troup/.
Troup County lies entirely 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, the Piedmont here has no long rock ridges. What sets Troup apart is water: the Chattahoochee River forms the western boundary and the state line with Alabama.
West Point Dam and West Point Lake sit on that river, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s and 1970s for flood control. The whole county drains through the Middle Chattahoochee and Lake Harding sub-basin of the ACF system. Frontage on a river or a federal reservoir adds questions a survey has to answer, from the location of the line relative to the water to easements and access along it.
For a property owner this matters in practical terms. A topographic survey records the surface and its contours for design, drainage and permitting, and a boundary survey establishes where the lines run, which counts for more where a parcel meets the river or the lake. On rolling Piedmont ground 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.
Troup County borders Coweta, Harris, Heard and Meriwether counties in Georgia, and meets Chambers and Randolph counties across the Chattahoochee River in Alabama. The neighbors we cover with their own pages are below.
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