Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Whitfield County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Dalton and Varnell.
Whitfield County sits in northwest Georgia, with Dalton as its county seat. The county lies in the Ridge and Valley province, where long parallel ridges and valleys were left behind as folded Paleozoic sedimentary rock eroded at different rates, and Dalton itself sits in the Great Valley. That relief between one part of a tract and another is why topographic surveys and site plans carry weight here, and why a set of contours is often worth having before a design is finished rather than after.
S&S Land Surveying LLC works from 549 West Ave in Cedartown, in Polk County, and takes work throughout Whitfield 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. Dalton and Varnell are among the county's incorporated cities, and we cover 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 Whitfield County deed. Instead the State identified land by land district and land lot number, and those identifiers 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, so a Whitfield County parcel is recorded in Whitfield County regardless of where the owner happens to live.
Plats are governed by O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. The clerk files and records plats meeting the standards of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, on a sheet no smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches and no larger than 24 by 36 inches. The Act further provides that 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 through the Whitfield County parcel and assessment portal.
Whitfield County lies in the Ridge and Valley province, where long parallel ridges and valleys formed as folded Paleozoic sedimentary rock eroded at different rates. The ridges stand on the harder sandstone, the valleys open on shale and limestone, and Dalton sits in the Great Valley. That limestone is the reason this corner of the state is cave country. Georgia EPD's survey of caves in Georgia places Whitfield among the cluster of northwest Georgia counties that hold most of the state's known caves.
Because the limestone here is Paleozoic, hard and dense, groundwater moves along joints in the rock rather than soaking through it evenly. Over time that produces solution features: caves, sinks and voids that are not visible from the surface.
For a property owner this matters in practical terms. Karst ground can affect where a structure is sited, how a foundation is designed, how stormwater is handled and what a lender or engineer wants documented before work begins. A topographic survey records the surface expression of that terrain, and a boundary survey establishes where the lines run across it. Subsurface investigation itself is geotechnical work rather than surveying, so where conditions warrant it we will say so and recommend 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. Tunnel Hill straddles the Whitfield and Catoosa line, so which office records a deed or plat there depends on where the parcel actually lies.
Whitfield County borders Catoosa, Gordon, Murray and Walker counties in Georgia, and meets Bradley and Hamilton counties across the Tennessee state line. The neighbors we cover with their own pages are below.
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